Originally Posted By havoc:
I was at FN Herstal last week and I asked my colleagues specifically about rumors of a US civilian-legal variant of the P90... They had talked about it, but nothing was actually being worked on. To that point, I'm not sure where the referenced 200 guns would come from, because it wouldn't be from the FN factory here or in Belgium.
In regard to some of the other questions here, no there is no 9mm version and the barrel is under the legal 16" minimum (indeed, so is the entire weapon). Which means that to meet the length minimum the barrel would have to be lenghtened, in addition to the fire control group (bolt, trigger pack, etc) being redesigned. Not an impossible feat by any means, but one also not being done at FN at the moment. The good news is that the 50-round magazines are now legal, and you could most likely get a tax stamp to have the short (standard length) barrel, assuming there will ever be a civilian version.
More information as I get it, and please email if you have any questions.
Best Regards,
Clint Lynch
Senior Product Designer
FN Manufacturing, Inc.
clintl@fnmfg.com
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LIAR
I made that picture on MS Paint in 5 minutes as part of a thread here on AR15.com. I used the "cut" funtion on Paint to move the factory flash hider, then made a barrel using the charging handle as a template, stretched it out, and "pasted" the flash hider to the front. If you look closely the flash hider isn't even lined up right, but I didn't care as it was theoretical.
Here is the original picture, hosted on my photobucket.com account under the user name "MolonLabe".
img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/MolonLabe/civP90.jpg
Here is my original post, on page 4 of the thread entitled "Pics of the FN P90 in action"
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=2&t=176451&page=4
P.S. FN will not make a semi-auto P90 because even with a 16 inch barrel the gun is too short to meet the overall length requirement of 26 inches, and they are not interested in modifying the gun heavily or changing the caliber to try to sell it commercially. This from the FN rep at the September 18 MODCC shoot.
The image robertmegar linked to in his post is hosted on the shitty, pathetic "Olympic Arms Owners Association" internet forum. Here is the link to it:
http://www.oa2.org/forums/download.php?id=712
robertmegar you are a lying sack of shit and I hope the mods ban your sorry ass for appropriating my image so you can spin a shit story about FN here.
You've also tried to do the same thing on THIS thread and you've already been caught. Give it up and go back to your crappy Olyarms site.
www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=2&t=176964
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That's not the same picture. How presumptious of you, DukeNukem (video game name.... ja, it figures).
Mods banning me... wow, are you that mad? Even if your story were true? Did you copyrighted it? I didn't think so, shut up!
In any case, this is a modified picture. Any one who knows noted it. JA! just having a little fun. But somebody here got angry as hell..... ja! thats the response thats make this post worthwhile. Sorry duke... or should I say dukenukem..... this is my picture, so I take whatever you said up there as a compliment to my work.... jajajajajaja LOL, and you thought you uncovered Roswell/area 51 secret. LOL
In any case this is how it would look, nice, right, I'll buy one if it ever came oout.
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The original pic, larger in size, for dukenukem to feast his eyes:
Compared to this as posted by "MORON"LABE
You, be the judge. See that duke, see, did you see that? LOL You guys are going to bust an aneurysm LOL
PS: Why would I want to go to the pit
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Originally Posted By Armed_Scientist: Hate to be the bearer of bad news but that pic is photoshoped and it's taken from another thread. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=2&t=176451 According to Shotgun News FN Herstal is infact developing a civvied P90, forgot which september issue that was. In any event I would guess we'll see it or at least hear more at the SHOT show. |
Please see my reply in the thread you linked to (on page 1), and also posted by "Skammy" on page 1 of this thread. Because of the very Shotgun News article you refer to, I asked FN Herstal engineers specifically on 14 September if they were working on a US civilian-legal version of the P90, and the answer was and is still: NOT AT THIS TIME (it is also not being worked on by engineers here at FNMI, should the question come up).
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Clint Lynch
Senior Product Designer
FN Manufacturing, Inc.
clintl@fnmfg.com
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Originally Posted By DmL5: What about this: David Fortier, in his recent article on FN in the SGN, categorically states that there is to be a semi-auto P90 and in general FN is committed to US civilian sales. He write this while on a visit to the FN plant in Herstal, so I tend to believe it. |
Sir,
Perhaps you aren't tracking me... Either the article is wrong, or something was written/taken out of context. Beleive it or not, gun magazines don't always provide correct information. Please see my above post or the one referenced (page 1, etc).
Again, should you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me.
Respectfully,
Clint Lynch
FN Manufacturing, Inc.
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