RFI FN 15 Carbines

[Padwan]

I’ve not had a rifle in ages and with the way things are going, I figure it can’t hurt to have one decent carbine at home. My only experience is with Colt but my usual sources are all out of stock. A friend offered to sell me a plain vanilla FN15 that he has in his safe. Looks like a 6920, based on the video he sent. He wants $1100 for it but I can probably haggle down to $1k.

I know FN built rifles and carbines for the .mil but are their commercial carbines good to go? The most I intend to mount will be an Aimpoint, a sling, and a Sure Fire light.

[Rick62]

My understanding is that FN commercial rifles are not equivalent to what they built for the military in terms of quality.
The AR market is probably the worst it’s been for the last three years (from a consumer perspective).
There’s still some quality to be had for not silly prices though.

A little under 1k
https://sonsoflibertygw.com/m4-patro...-sl-handguard/

A little over

https://www.centurionarms.com/cm4-rifle-p/cm4rfl.htm

Both by well regarded companies.


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[rd62]

I’ve not had a rifle in ages and with the way things are going, I figure it can’t hurt to have one decent carbine at home. My only experience is with Colt but my usual sources are all out of stock. A friend offered to sell me a plain vanilla FN15 that he has in his safe. Looks like a 6920, based on the video he sent. He wants $1100 for it but I can probably haggle down to $1k.

I know FN built rifles and carbines for the .mil but are their commercial carbines good to go? The most I intend to mount will be an Aimpoint, a sling, and a Sure Fire light.

I haven't personally owned an FN15 but would believe it would be a quality carbine better than some other offeri gs on the market.

[Greg]

That Centurion listed above would be a great choice for the one carbine.

[5pins]

I don't think the price is unreasonable but it's not a screaming deal. If you could swing another $300 I would get a BCM and never look back.

https://aimsurplus.com/bcm-recce-16-...carbine-rifle/

[LittleLebowski]

This forum is spot on, I’d go Centurion or a BCM for less.

[Grey]

I would be extremely comfortable with any of the 3 (SOLGW, BCM, Centurion) mentioned so far. It's worth saving a bit more and getting something that has been vetted by hundreds if not thousands (probably wayyyy more) of users and been deemed good to go.

[JclInAtx]

Not a great deal. Here's an fn at top gun supply, which isnt a bargain discounter https://www.topgunsupply.com/fn-fn15...16-5.56mm.html for $1075 with a quad rail and low profile gas block.

I'm pretty sure I've seen the one you mention for $900 recently, but i can't seem to find it now. This may be what i was thinking of, its an srp for $799 https://www.gandrtactical.com/FN-15-...Blk_p_342.html

[Padwan]

Thanks for the advice, and for saving me some cash (for now.) 🙂

[OlongJohnson]

When FN launched the consumer line, I read that they have to have complete segregation of the production, to ensure they aren't inadvertently or otherwise shipping DOD products to civs (I interpret this as e.g. ensuring someone doesn't sneak select fire parts into a civ lower; there's likely also an issue of using production facilities & equipment that were paid for by .gov to make product that is not for the program that paid for it), but never any details of what that means as far as actual production process and quality differences. Basically, the message was that they do it as close as reasonably possible to the mil-spec guns. But no details. I'd like to learn more, but there probably isn't any way for that information to become public.