I’ve asked my friend Harrison over at Harry’s Holsters, who has several of the FN 509 series pistols if a stiff magazine release is a common issue. I have to move my hand around the gun to get to the button, to press it, to get the magazine to drop.
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Now, when you actually do activate the button, it does drop free and clear relatively easily. You can’t just press it you have to really get into it to drop your magazine. Obviously, you don’t want something too easy to press and release your magazine accidentally, but you have to really try to get this magazine out. It is ambidextrous, so there is one on both sides, but it is extremely difficult to press it. The magazine release on this gun is probably my biggest gripe so far. This trigger has a break in the middle that you have to squeeze and depress to make the pistol fire. This trigger really reminds me of the Smith & Wesson M&P series triggers. Much like the Glock series of pistols, it is a safe-action style pistol, and the trigger actually has a secondary safety in it. Let us talk about controls on the FN 509 there is no safety on this model. The controls on handguns are largely similar but each gun will function and feel different in your hand so let us run down the 509 controls. Nothing really to write home about on the sights, but they do seem to get the job done. I would put them on par roughly with the Glock Night Sights. They’re not quite as white and fluorescent as I would prefer, or even having just a front orange dot or green dot, then having no dots on the rear sight.īut overall, from what I can tell, they’re effortless to pick up, and they seem to do the job. They are the standard sight picture: two on the rear, one on the front. The 509 has night sights from the factory. The sights on the FN 509 come with a pretty decent set of sights. Price Check: PSA | Primary Arms | | Grab A Gun | Sportsman’s Warehouse Sights My hands are a little bit smaller, and the magazine release seems to be a little hard to get to.Īgain, the FN 509 has removable back straps and comes with two additional back straps that you can change out to adjust to feel better in your hand possibly. There’s nothing in the way of your index finger. Keeping your index figure running down the side of the gun feels very natural and comfortable. I can establish a master grip very easily, and the gun sits very well in your hand. The rear back strap comes off, and the sides feature the FN logo with an almost RTF2-type grip texture. The FN 509’s grip has the FN logo in the grip frame. It is easy to get the magazine in, but there’s no real flair to the MagWell to funnel the magazine into the mag well for quick reloads. The magazine well on the FN 509 is not very flared. The magazines come in at $60, which is steep compared to other striker-fired pistols. The availability of these magazines is good, and they are pretty easy to find, but the price is rather steep. The follower on this magazine is orange, and it appears to have a very durable construction. The FN 509 features a 17-round metal-framed magazine.
Here’s the factory breakdown of the FN 509: CALIBER: and the Winchester brand were acquired by FN and are still owned under the Herstal Group to this day. In 1987, a decade later, US Repeating Arms Co. FN acquired Browning Arms Company in 1977. They had a long-standing partnership with John Mosses Browning, the founder, and creator of Browning Arms Company. Fabrique National Herstal, from here on referred to as FN, is located in Herstal, Belgium, and is the largest exporter of small arms in Europe.įN is part of Herstal Group, a holding company that also owns Winchester and Browning, which the regional government of Wallonia owns.
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