The 11-round magazine is shipped with an extended finger hook base pad in place, but FN also includes a flush basepad, seen here installed. × While chambered in 9mm, and sporting a polymer frame, the Reflex is not a striker-fired pistol but rather a single-action-only gun with an internal hammer. There is no price difference between colors, but MRD models are $60 more. You have your choice of black or FDE pistols, and ones just with iron sights or MRD models (MRD stands for Mini Red Dot and means the slide is optics ready). If the “class” only includes FN pistols, then it is definitely true. I wouldn’t say that, but it is definitely better than most of the sub- and micro-compact trigger pulls on the market. FN says the Reflex has a “Best-in-Class” trigger. FYI: this is the exact same reason why Series ‘80 1911 trigger systems (with a firing pin safety) are inferior in pull quality to the original 1911 design. What added a bit of mushiness was the firing pin safety inside the slide, that the trigger bar had to push up out of the way before the hammer could fall. Once I removed the slide and pulled the trigger a few times, to get a look at the hammer both forward and back (stopping it with my thumb so it didn’t impact the frame), I realized that the single action trigger system itself had a very crisp break. It was not as crisp as a traditional SAO trigger pull (1911, etc.) but it was lighter and a bit crisper than the trigger pull of the average striker-fired gun, and much better than the average FN pistol trigger.Ī brief aside on the trigger system. The trigger pull weight on my sample clocked in right at 5.0-lbs. FN’s spec for the Reflex’s single-action trigger pull is 4.5–5.5-lbs, and I’m happy to say that’s accurate. The FN 509 which won the LAPD contract has a different, lighter trigger pull/system that is starting to find its way to commercial Edge models. When I tested FN’s new 509C (Compact) in 2019 (which is much bigger than the Reflex in every dimension, and heavier, while holding fewer rounds), it officially had a trigger pull of 5.75 pounds, and my sample (as did most of them) had a trigger pull that came in a full pound over the spec, and you feel every ounce. The heavy trigger pulls of FN pistols in general, and their 509 in particular, have turned a lot of people away from the design-and also sent a lot of business toward Apex Tactical, whose Action Enhancement Kit brings the 509’s trigger pull down to 5.5-lbs (which, honestly, is where it should be to begin with). Seriously, before I veer away into the other details, let me talk about that. Tarr thought his thumb might prevent the slide stop from working properly while shooting, but never had a problem. There’s only so much room on a small gun. This single-action-only (SAO) trigger system provides for a vastly improved trigger pull, at least when compared to FN’s larger pistols, and tells me that FN was serious about producing a gun that was a shooter. Instead, this pistol has a single-action-only operating system, with an internal hammer. It has a polymer frame, but hold on-one of the very interesting things about this pistol is that it is not striker-fired. Yes, they have neutered 10-round magazines for those of you living in low-T states. One 11-round magazine that ships with extended finger hook base pad in place (although they provide a flush basepad for it), and one extended 15-round magazine. It has a 3.3-inch barrel, and each pistol comes with two magazines. First, the details-this is a micro compact pistol only available chambered in 9mm. There are quite a few things about it which surprised me, and in a good way. FN America might be a bit on the tardy side when it comes to introducing a micro compact pistol, but I am happy to say that the new FN Reflex ccw pistol is not a retread of competing designs.
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