#Fn 9mm review full#
With the safety on, the FNH FNX allows a full trigger stroke but with no activity in the fire control system.
Regardless of the position of the hammer, a shooter could activate the safety. The decocker/safety was not as crisp as other levers or switches I’ve used and let down the hammer with a fairly loud thud. When decocking the FNH FNX, the right side of the ambidextrous decocker/safety switch would at times push against my hand, which was annoying. Of course, a shooter could manually pull the hammer back and return to Condition 1. This would result in the need for the long, double action stroke to fire the gun. The decocker/safety was easy to engage, fairly positive in its travel, but too easy to decock when merely trying to take off the safety. To fire, the user would thumb the decocker/safety switch down and the gun would be ready to fire, a very 1911 feel. Those who would want to carry in Condition 1 would at this point push the decocker/safety up to activate the trigger safety. Joint Combat Pistol Program for the FNP-45 USG.Ĭhambering a round resulted in the gun having the hammer back, ready to fire in single action mode. The FNX service pistol was introduced in 2009 and incorporates many of the ergonomic improvements initially developed under the U.S. In double action mode - available only if you use the decocker to lower the hammer - the trigger stroke was still smooth but very long, so much so that some of the shooters who were helping me wondered if something was wrong with them or with the gun.
The FNH FNX design includes a polymer frame with a serious gripping surface, a trigger guard that’s large enough to be used with a gloved hand, a tactical rail, a larger ambidextrous magazine release, and an ambidextrous decocker/safety. In addition to these and other military and law enforcement weapons, the company also created the pistol you see here. In more recent years, the company would create and deploy the FN SCAR 16 and 17 globally. In 1977, FN acquired Browning Arms and in 1989 FN became The Herstal Group.ĭuring the late 20th century, the company would produce weapons such as the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, the M240 machine gun, the P90 machine gun, and the Five SeveN pistol. In the case of this polymer 9mm duty pistol, however, almost everything is right.Ī little bit of history: European firearms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale (FN) has been producing legendary firearms since the late 1800s, including collaborative products with the late John Moses Browning. Many people have never heard of it, and if you’re not careful, just saying the name “FNH FNX” can sound like you’re mad or something is wrong. As a bit of counterfire, FN's optics mounting system is in many cases superior to the ones used on those pistols, plus, the 509 line is American-made in Columbia, South Carolina for those patriots out there.In this Gun Digest handgun review, Mark Kakkuri reviews the FNH FNX 9mm – an American-made pistol from a venerable European gunmaker. The bad news for FN is that all those pistols are cheaper, often drastically so, and a couple on that list have better stock triggers than the Edge. MSRP is $1,499, and it is currently trending higher than that due to supply/demand.ĭirect competitors in style and features to the Edge include the Canik TP9SFx, CZ PZ-10F Optics-Ready, Heckler & Koch VP9L(OR), the Glock 34 MOS, and the Walther PDP 5-inch Optics Ready. If you like FNs and are looking for a hard-use gun with lots of features right out of the box, it is for you. In the end, the Edge delivers performance while looking great doing it and can check several boxes, being more than capable of lots of different jobs that you would want a reliable and rugged handgun to clock in for. It ate both brass and steel with equal results. We would have liked to have run twice that amount, but the ammo stack was low and FN wanted their gun back. This ranged from 115- to 147-grain loads and in FMJ, TMJ, and JHP profiles. Across four range sessions, we ran just over 1,000 rounds through the FN 509 with zero issues.
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