Any love for FN guns?

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I don't see or hear too much about them, but I got the chance to fondle an FN Reflex at a LGS and I think I'm in love. Very small but good capacity. Price as about half of it's big brother the FN 545 that was next to it on the counter.

My only FN that I own is an Auto - 5 still going strong after 79 years, so my opinion of them is high, but is that opinion still justified?
 
I own two of their pistols: FNX-45 & FN 509. Both are very high quality firearms.

The FNX-45 is a very accurate, soft shooting 15+1 .45 ACP pistol. Can't think of another with that capacity in that caliber.

The 509 has been very reliable and comfortable to shoot. 17+1 9mm capacity with an optional 24 round magazine. Very reliable and easy to carry.

I carry both pistols with confidence.
 
I bet you'd hear more about FN if Sig wasn't as popular up here, and in other parts of the country you probably do (and CZ, others, as well).

A lot of employee discount Sigs have been bought over the years 1st or 2nd hand, the store where you can roll up and pay < retail or even stumble on a real deal at times (think they recently had a BOGO) even.
 
Anyone have any info on the Reflex? That's the one that's calling me. Everything I see says it's a good pistol, but I'd like to hear from the NES brain trust.
 
The new one seem extremely expensive when there’s so many options but it’s a nice gun
 
I don't see or hear too much about them, but I got the chance to fondle an FN Reflex at a LGS and I think I'm in love. Very small but good capacity. Price as about half of it's big brother the FN 545 that was next to it on the counter.

My only FN that I own is an Auto - 5 still going strong after 79 years, so my opinion of them is high, but is that opinion still justified?

Have fun with an unsupported gun in like 5 years, and little or no aftermarket support for its whole duration. So you'd better like the way it comes out of the box, because it is what it
is.

Most of FNs handguns are steps down from even a Canik or CZ P10 etc at this point, especially in terms of support.

Hopefully it doesnt have that crunchy f***ing trigger the 553 or whatever it is has. I can't keep track of them all anymore, they just strike me as being continuously mediocre. And this is coming from a guy who jonesed hardcore over the FNS for a few years until I figured out that the trigger just is what it is, but at least the FNS didnt get all crunchy.

The only "cool" gun of the lot is the FNX-45. But that is huge, and DA/SA... Strangely enough I can see that model outlasting their striker guns in terms of being offered for sale at
least.
 
They're good guns. I had an FNS 9 that I sold here. Not because it wasn't a good gun, but because it really didn't fill a void.

I still have an FNX9 that I have listed here. Still unfired. I bought it because its specs sounded great. But again, it doesn't fill a gap for me, so I listed it for sale.
 
I looked briefly at the 510.

It was, at the time at least, very difficult to source 10-round mags for use here behind the Iron Curtain. And the mags wouldn’t have been cheap even if they were in stock.

So I moved on.
 
I have an FN-X that I absolutely love to shoot. I usually don't get to excited about handguns, but this one is the bee's knees. Great supressor host.

Have a PS90 that I am going to SBR eventually. Fun, but spendy to shoot

I have an older Century L1A1 that I brought back from the dead and did the compliance work to get it back to it's British roots with pepble grain furniture and refinish on the metal. Runs great.

Then there is the mutt Imbel.....Coonan receiver with Imbel parts. The parts kit was in excellent shape and came with the original barrel during the days before the ATF said no Mas to barrel importation. I had to open the gas port a bit and it runs very smoothly now. Has an 18" barrel and I replaced the beat up Imbel furniture with some new DS Arms furniture. Great shooter.
 
Pistols: FN 1900, 1903, 1906, Baby, 1910, 3 1910/22, pre-WWII HP w/ tangent sight, 1944 HP with WaA
Rifles: M30-11 Sniper, Israeli M1952, M1935 Peru
The Ludwig Loewe/DWM/Mauser connection w/ FN has triggered the "want", also severaly of the pistol types were in German use in WWII.
 
I still have my FNX-45 and FNX-9. The left-handed friendly controls, true ambi design and hammer DA/SA with decocker was the draw. the 45 is solid but the FNX-9 feels like it was built by muppets compared to fine German no compromise of an Hk P30. Too bad FN gets no love cause everyone's always been and always will be a Glock whore.
 
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