My striker fired FN’s landed today. At a glance, they appear to be well built but a striker fired pistol with a thumb safety is going to take some getting used to. I won’t have opportunity to fire it until Sunday. I will throw up some pictures for those interested in the guts. I don’t think it is going to be a Glock killer though.
very interested in pics
Very interested, thanks for sharing.
Please post pics when you can.
Also interested in your impressions of the trigger and how it compares to other pistols you are familiar with. Thanks
I agree with all of this.
As to the trigger, it is a mushy striker fired trigger. I doubt any production striker will ever have a nice trigger any time soon. I would say it feels comparable to the M&P’s.
Until FN does some advertising as has realistic MSRP prices, I doubt they will overtake anything, but the FNS IS a nice gun.
Pics or it didn’t happen! :jester:
It might be because of the primer only needing a light strike on the Five-Seven, but I wish they could emulate that fantastic trigger pull on this weapon.
Is a version available without a thumb safety?
Yes I’ve read that the safety is supposed to be optional, but so far all I’ve seen are the safety version for sale.
Only the thumb safety variant is available at this time. Night sights and 3 mags are standard.
How’s the thumb safety; reach, well defined movement or no?
Thanks for the responses.
I am interested in photos or any other sort of observations as well.
Wow. Thank you for the pics. Looks ridiculously similar to an M&P internally. I wonder if you can similarly remove external safety as well.
I will tear one apart in the next couple of days. I am disinclined to remove the mechanism in the back of the frame as it is held in with a roll pin. My friend at FN is supposed to e-mail me an armorers manual for it. Well see what happens…
Ergo’s on the pistol are great. A step above Glock for sure and maybe the M&P.
I’m glad they moved the safety up a little higher. My thumbs don’t quite grip as high as I’d like them to on my fnx bc of the large thumb safety, however it doesn’t effect the performance whatsoever.
I’m anxious to try this one out, although I wish they would have named it the FNX-9s, not that it really matters.
That looks great!
FrOnt sight looks backwards in the picture. I’m sure it’s not, just looks like it.