Colt M240 machine guns?

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From Defenselink:

Colt Defense, LLC., West Hartford, Conn., was awarded on Sept. 25, 2009 a $32,143,048 firm-fixed-price contract for M240B machine guns. Work is to be performed in Hartford, Conn., with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31, 2015. Bid solicitation was open to the Firms in the U.S. and Canada with two bids received. TACOM-RI, CCTA-AR-SA, Rock Island, Ill., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-09-D-0175).

Haven’t these always been made by FN?

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My guess is that some paper pusher made a mistake. I could be wrong.

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The Ones I have been around was FN.:confused:

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As were all of my “Golfs.”

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If FN can can get a contract to make M16s for the US Military, then perhaps Colt can get one to make M240s for them as well… This will be quite a coup if turns out to be factual…

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So they are just doing barrels for the Charlie models?

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https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=4d321b1b0988c8142b1c2feffd3f7e7a&tab=core&_cview=0

Above is the original solicitation. I don’t know if the NSN translates into a complete weapon or just the barrel.

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That NSN is for machine gun 7.62 MM with a unit price $6,000 ea from DLA

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Never seen a Colt 240 before…interesting

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I’m sure it’ll look a lot like a FN 240 just with Colt markings

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Who knows maybe they might put a little colt spin on it…Much like the HK and their M249.

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“Who knows maybe they might put a little colt spin on it…”

Great, just what we need, a 240 with different size and offset takedown pins.

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HAHAHAHA NICE :smiley:

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I checked that NSN against my TM and it comes back to the M240B machine gun. The barrel NSN is 1005-01-044-1026.

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Interesting. A “L” would have been great during training at the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport.

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The weird thing is that the award appears to be coming out of TACOM-Warren, not TACOM-Rock Island. It wasn’t on the Warren ProcNet site yesterday, but most notice postings are generally a few days behind.

TACOM has been trying to open up solicitations for issue small arms in order to build up the small arms industrial base. It is entirely possible that we’ll see a General Dynamics or Colt M249 someday.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/usc_sec_10_00002473----000-.html

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