zeleny
10-14-2019, 04:03 PM
Long employed in bullseye pistol shooting, frame mounted optics (FMOs) are making an appearance in the tacticool market (http://www.laugoarms.com/alien.html).
https://youtu.be/pXHrr-Eqo3Y
FMOs appear to be ill-suited for John Moses Browning’s designs, starting with the “breech-piece” (a.k.a. the slide) introduced in the US Patent 621747 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US621747A/en) granted on March 21st, 1899. It is hard to think of a modern autopistol that doesn’t feature a slide assembly; yet in operation, slide-mounted optics suffer from far greater stress than their frame-mounted counterparts. Given the emergence of military procurement of RDS-equipped handguns (https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/2018/09/06/ussocom-selects-trijicon-rmr-type-2-for-its-handguns/), I expect the industry to explore alternative autopistol configurations. My money is on modernized derivatives of the classic Roth-Steyr M1907 cavalry pistol.
https://youtu.be/baUTYMPsh9M
https://youtu.be/pXHrr-Eqo3Y
FMOs appear to be ill-suited for John Moses Browning’s designs, starting with the “breech-piece” (a.k.a. the slide) introduced in the US Patent 621747 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US621747A/en) granted on March 21st, 1899. It is hard to think of a modern autopistol that doesn’t feature a slide assembly; yet in operation, slide-mounted optics suffer from far greater stress than their frame-mounted counterparts. Given the emergence of military procurement of RDS-equipped handguns (https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/2018/09/06/ussocom-selects-trijicon-rmr-type-2-for-its-handguns/), I expect the industry to explore alternative autopistol configurations. My money is on modernized derivatives of the classic Roth-Steyr M1907 cavalry pistol.
https://youtu.be/baUTYMPsh9M