I have heard from someone I trust that “an entire West Coast PD had most of their SCARs stocks break.” 2 weeks ago I ran into a guy buying a KAC SR15 at my local funshop. His father (and shooting partner) just had his SCAR’s stock break.
Statistically insignificant probably. Has anyone else heard of incidents like there?
thought I heard this during SOCOM testing. A West Coast PD has SCARs issued?
So I’m told and I trust this man.
That is some flossy kit for a PD with budgets being what they are these days…
Figure the lifespan of a duty weapon (long gun), then add in budgets, special projects, and grants. They aren’t exactly paying retail for them, and FN is a pretty good supporter of LE, or at least they have been in my dealings with them.
Not heard this, Lee, but it is depressing if true. To be honest I mentioned several concerns to FNHUSA at SHOT 2006 and the integrity of the stock and the control lever was another.
They should have hired me! 
There have been some reports of SCAR stocks breaking, yes. I’ve never personally seen it or seen a photo of the breakage though.
As to how common this happens, I dont know
Could be an real issue. Could be hyperbole
I wonder what part is breaking. I saw this photo in another thread and though some guys love to put tape on everything they touch. David
The part they are talking about is the button on the left side that locks the stock in the strait postition. It has two small plastic teeth. Ive heard theres some 6,000 plus SCARs and I thought I heard about 100 or so breaking. Meaning theres nothing to hold the stock from folding to the side. If its an issue Im sure well see a metal button soon…
is that the only part that’s breaking? i have seen a version of that button that has only one large tooth, instead of two, but i don’t know whether that’s a new style or an older style. this was on an LE demo gun, not a civvie SCAR.
Yup, that button is the weak link, esp. when cold I hear. The breaking is happeing when the user is unfolding the stock and slapping the stock back strait, its sopposed to clip back on its own but I guess do it hard enogh and the shock kills the plastic…
Mine broke when the rifle was shipped to my FFL. This problems has been discussed on several threads on the FNforum. I sent the stock back to FN on their dime and they had it back to me within 1 week. No problems since…
GenI stuff is usually referred to later as “buggy” GenI stuff. That’s why I try to never be the guy to buy the GenI stuff. 
FN will evolve the design more, for sure.
The SCARs being sold to civis right now are not really gen 1 stuff…:rolleyes:
FN should have made the button out of metal…
Even if it’s Generation 25, the point remains. If Generation 26 shows up, Generation 25 will referred to as “Buggy” Generation 25…
No shit…
Exactly, I will never buy a first generation weapon for that reason.
Besides, I’m holding out for the SCAR 17. Hopefully by the time they realease the civilian model they’ll have alot of the kinks worked out. Who knows…
99HMC4 makes a valid point though, the SCAR 16S is probably Generation 4 or 5 from an internal R&D standpoint. Though, I believe we all understand that civilians are equal to the task of finding a way to break even the toughest anvil. 
Yeah I can agree with that. What pisses me off is that it seems like alot of manufactorers just release products and use the general public as their beta testers instead of doing that work in-house before releasing their product. I’m aware not all company’s are guilty of this.
The current civilian offering is actually based on the military’s 3rd generation SCAR. Templar has some pictures of the 1st generation/prototype. Although I have confidence in the weapon system, I’m surprised that this issue was not addressed in the SOCOM testing.