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If Heir Reilly didn't suck by imposing his nonsense, good for nothing, totally useless, and unfounded "Consumer protection regulations" on the MA firearms market, what would you buy first.
Pictures, and reasons please.
My first choice would be the:
Fabrique Nationale Five-seveN
I would chose this pistol for a couple of reasons... Here goes.
5.7x28mm FN
Operation: Delayed Blowback
Action: DAO or Single Action
Safety: No manual safety (DAO), frame-mounted (Tac)
Sights: Fixed 3-Dot, or Adjustable 3-Dot (Tactical)
Barrel: 4.82" (122mm)
Weight: 1.36 lbs (618 g)
Magazine Capacity:
20 rounds, double stacked
Modes of fire:
Safe, semi-automatic
The 5.7mm round is credited with weighing half as much as a standard 9mm round. It is also claimed that it produces roughly half the felt recoil. The 5.7mm round used in the Five-seveN is marketed as being able to effectively incapacitate an enemy. Conventional hollow-point bullets rely on expansion to create a large wound channel, but the Five-seveN's cartridge is designed to hit the enemy, travel a few inches, then rotate and continue traveling in this manner. This means that the wound it creates would be as wide as the length of the projectile—a little over twenty-one millimeters or nearly one inch. This would create a more grievous wound channel, without the expansion of a hollowpoint or the fragmentation of a frangible bullet
The reduced felt recoil produced by the 5.7x28mm makes the Five-seveN easier to shoot for many. The operator of the firearm also has greater firepower at his disposal, because the cartridge capacity of the weapon is improved over many other pistols, holding twenty rounds. Despite its capacity, the Five-seveN is an incredibly light pistol, weighing 1.6 pounds loaded — only 70% as much as other polymer framed pistols and 50% as much as metal pistols. The Five-seveN is also reasonably compact, being the same size as some other handguns. It can be seen that the advantages incorporated in the FN Five-seveN make it an effective, if unusual, pistol. It has not been widely adopted, due mostly to the unconventional concept and ammunition.
While not a "Pretty Gun" in most folks eyes, I find the styling efforts have been placed where it counts the most. Function over fashion.
This is a gun I would TRULY love to own.
How bout everyone else? Let's hear what you would have...
Adam
If Heir Reilly didn't suck by imposing his nonsense, good for nothing, totally useless, and unfounded "Consumer protection regulations" on the MA firearms market, what would you buy first.
Pictures, and reasons please.
My first choice would be the:
Fabrique Nationale Five-seveN
I would chose this pistol for a couple of reasons... Here goes.
5.7x28mm FN
Operation: Delayed Blowback
Action: DAO or Single Action
Safety: No manual safety (DAO), frame-mounted (Tac)
Sights: Fixed 3-Dot, or Adjustable 3-Dot (Tactical)
Barrel: 4.82" (122mm)
Weight: 1.36 lbs (618 g)
Magazine Capacity:
20 rounds, double stacked
Modes of fire:
Safe, semi-automatic
The 5.7mm round is credited with weighing half as much as a standard 9mm round. It is also claimed that it produces roughly half the felt recoil. The 5.7mm round used in the Five-seveN is marketed as being able to effectively incapacitate an enemy. Conventional hollow-point bullets rely on expansion to create a large wound channel, but the Five-seveN's cartridge is designed to hit the enemy, travel a few inches, then rotate and continue traveling in this manner. This means that the wound it creates would be as wide as the length of the projectile—a little over twenty-one millimeters or nearly one inch. This would create a more grievous wound channel, without the expansion of a hollowpoint or the fragmentation of a frangible bullet
The reduced felt recoil produced by the 5.7x28mm makes the Five-seveN easier to shoot for many. The operator of the firearm also has greater firepower at his disposal, because the cartridge capacity of the weapon is improved over many other pistols, holding twenty rounds. Despite its capacity, the Five-seveN is an incredibly light pistol, weighing 1.6 pounds loaded — only 70% as much as other polymer framed pistols and 50% as much as metal pistols. The Five-seveN is also reasonably compact, being the same size as some other handguns. It can be seen that the advantages incorporated in the FN Five-seveN make it an effective, if unusual, pistol. It has not been widely adopted, due mostly to the unconventional concept and ammunition.
While not a "Pretty Gun" in most folks eyes, I find the styling efforts have been placed where it counts the most. Function over fashion.
This is a gun I would TRULY love to own.
How bout everyone else? Let's hear what you would have...
Adam
