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the fn name is something that we're

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all very proud of i encourage my

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team and everybody to always look at

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how can

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we do it different how can we

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do better so there is a combination

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of craftsmanship and technical capabilities it takes

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to make our product fn we have

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a heritage of great engineers that designed

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the most battle proven the most enduring

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systems in the farms work

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the fn is the world's leading small

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arms manufacturer here in the united states

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located in columbia south carolina we make

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everything from pistols carbines and rifles and

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machine guns for the military

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the offense started it's history back in

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the late eighteen hundreds making mousers for

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the belgian government they've delved into making

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things like bicycles and motorcycles even cars

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jet engine but at it's core it's

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always been a manufacturer of weapons for

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military kida fn history is the partnership

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developed with john moses browning started back

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in the late eighteenth

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hundreds in lasted for a few decades

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and john moses browning designed everything from

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the auto five shotgun to several pistol

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designs from the nineteen hundred forward all

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the way up to the b a

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r just basically the same engine that

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drives machine guns to this day something

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that a lot of people don't know

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about offenders they're behind the standard nato

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round of the five

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five six and seven six two as

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well as more recently the five stuff

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fn was one of the original companies

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that designed the ammunition and the gun

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as assist and so you're a ar

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fifteen platform wouldn't be chambered in five

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five six if it wasn't for fn

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in the development and standardization through the

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fn minute when i started at fn

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over twenty years

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ago we had three main products the

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empty forty machine gun the m two

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forty nine machine gun and the m

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sixteen one of my first projects was

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to really reduce the load on a

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soldier in order to allow them to

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carry all of the gear that goes

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along with their missions today and after

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several years of development that culminated in

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the type classification of the mt

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forty yell my very first project to

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turn it into something that was fielded

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and is now used across the world

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by our soldiers is very rewarding it's

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just one area that i take pride

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in the work that we've done here

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over the years

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when we develop a new product we

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usually focus primarily on what are the

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customer needs that's the first step and

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so we work with our product managers

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military program managers to really assess what

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those needs are originally we had the

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iphone as pistol which was a striker

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fired nine millimeter pistol did pretty well

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for us what we learned was

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was looking forward to government opportunities military

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federal police two thousand and fifteen we

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submit a module hang on system with

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the predecessor to the five or nine

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so it was an evolved fms compact

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actually in the preparation for that competition

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we had to do a lot of

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focus on durability reliability

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accuracy we submit it on that and

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what that led to was the kick

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off of our commercial program which was

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the five or not

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the five going on during development we

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have very stringent durability requirements so it

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required us to put together very robust

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test plans really do a lot of

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simulation like we say there's over a

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million rounds fired in the development of

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the five or nine

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building off of the finest platform the

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development you can do as much early

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analysis as possible and have all your

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ducks in a row before you actually

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build guns but you don't really learn

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until you actually start doing some shooting

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so we really spent a lot of

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time on the range getting to know

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how the gun reacts with different ammo

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in different environments under different temperature ranges

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it's really just develop and industrialize and

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sell one of the most durable guns

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out there so probably our biggest win

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to date that you'll hear about was

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lapd i think that

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is a testament to the performance and

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the quality of our gone as well

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as our patented optics system when you

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pick up a big agency like that

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that shows we've done our homework we've

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done a lot of things right and

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when it comes down to testing the

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performance the firearm making all the necessary

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adaptations for a department that big ergonomics

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these things play a huge role because

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you have so many different

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officers of all different types that you

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have to adapt the gun too so

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in designing the five one nine one

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of the innovative features of it is

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the low profile optics mounting system and

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that was a big feature for the

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lapd we designed an innovative solution very

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early along with the fiber nine a

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duty pistol that met all of the

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durability and reliability

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the requirements but had a very versatile

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optics mounting system from an engineering standpoint

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or as an engineer one of the

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things that we will not compromise on

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is the quality my team we know

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what the product is useful we know

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that it's relied upon by civilians by

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military by law enforcement we know that

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those phone

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folks trust our product with their lives

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and because of that we will not

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compromise on quality

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so september first we launched the fn

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five o two which is our first

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rimfire pistol and the other first is

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this the first twenty two pistol with

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the slide not an optic on a

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slide reciprocates when we set out to

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do this pistol we worked with a

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partner and we challenged them to say

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hey you know we're known for optics

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how can we make an optic run

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on a twenty two one of the

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companies we spoke with said can't be

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done the other one came up with

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a solution so for us that was

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really a big factor because it plays

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well into our lineup and it gives

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the customer something really unique so now

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you have a fifteen round twenty two

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with an optic you can put a

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suppressor on it you can go out

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have a lot of fun we scaled

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grip a little bit for first time

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shooters new shooters you know maybe young

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people to get them out there and

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learn how to shoot on something that

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will translate well when they decide to

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get it to a nine millimeter or

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something bigger i think for most americans

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two be it in boy scouts or

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relative's farm or whatever the case may

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be this was away

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for us to diversify our offering is

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still kind of sticks to our fn

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dna where it has the feature set

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that our customers like it has the

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look and feel that our customers like

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but it is fun it's a less

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expensive way to shoot and get out

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in the early two thousand so calm

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was looking for a modular series or

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system or family farms replace a variety

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of farms they had in their inventory

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so they wanted something that was adaptable

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something that could be adapted to the

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user while easily more adapted to omission

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from day to day basis without having

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to go back to the armory you

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get a completely different set

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system so they wanted something that the

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operators could be able to use and

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not have to relearn it every time

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they pick up a new fire so

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that's what the basis of scar was

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modular adaptable user friendly designed from the

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very beginning for the operator not for

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the armor so here are the offence

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columbia south carolina plant we manufacture the

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scars here in the united states now

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what that allows us to take the

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great design of the fn scar that

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was developed in belgium it gives us

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more flexibility to change configurations to deliver

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more options to the customer more quickly

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because we can do it right your

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organically in the united states take for

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example the scar sixteen or the scar

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lite has a standard fourteen and a

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half and carbines

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with a foldable collapsible rear stock is

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a pretty lightweight five five six car

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me but it's modular enough you could

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put a longer barrel on it press

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it into the role as a dmr

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next day or a couple of minutes

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later you could put a ten inch

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barrel on it now it's your ckc

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entry got the entire scar family the

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entire firearm line was designed to be

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adaptable scale up

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doubt one of the other breadcrumbs we

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show on scars they remark multi caliber

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from the very beginning on the scar

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twentieth again it wasn't for another year

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that the six five creedmoor came out

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and now we're going to offer those

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two barrel assemblies at some point six

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two in the one in ten twist

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and the six five creedmoor wanted eight

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with available to scar twentieth

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owners who have one caliber want the

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other so like the mark sixteen mark

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seventeen where you can change barrel length

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in the twenty s you can change

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caliber those users who are buying scars

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today's scar sixteen scar seventeen will also

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notice their mark multi caliber are only

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available one caliber today but there are

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other calibers coming what those calibers are

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users will have to wait and see

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the non reciprocating charging handle in the

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scar was actually developed for the military

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in about two thousand and twelve it

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answered some of the complaints of the

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scar rifle and that the charging handle

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went back and forth every time it

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fired this limited where the user could

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hold the life and potentially brace the

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rifle against barricade

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but again socom still has the reciprocating

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one in their inventory commercial market you

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have arrive right what people want and

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fn always strives to meet that market

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as best we can the non reciprocating

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still offers all the features of the

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reciprocating such as afford it says a

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charging handle that's located where it's best

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suited for the op

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so now you can put your hand

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anywhere on the laugh we want while

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you fire it allows you to put

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optics anywhere you want on the rail

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and not worry so much about the

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charging handle path because the not reciprocating

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charging handle now has an offset or

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a bet charging handle that angles down

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about thirty degree we also offered more

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adaptability that now there's two

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the charging handle the offset one and

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then also a short one user can

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opt to use either one of them

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or both of them and you can

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put them on either side so it

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offers users much more adaptability than even

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the socom mark sixteen or seventeen in

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service today one of the things product

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manager sees as the future of a

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product and i can't reveal everything

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what i can assure you that fn

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is working on the future of scar

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we see it as a very bright

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future

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the quality of fn as many levels

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there's the quality that's designed into those

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guns then you get into the manufacturing

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side for making sure that a component

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that we make is right and doing

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the inspection dimensions are good that they

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all meet what they need to make

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and then when we take all those

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components up to assembling we build a

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gun and we do the bench

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tests and then you take it to

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the very next level he fake it

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into the range and we shoot every

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gun that we make so now we're

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into the production range and we have

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the expert shooters they're shooting the gun

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making sure everything works right trigger feels

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good the slide moves free and he'd

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take it over to the packaging area

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we give a quick cleaning give it

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a wipe down give it a good

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visual once over

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and then package it up so that

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multi level of quality that's built in

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every gun is really what gets all

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the employees here connected to the consumer

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so you see a lot of technology

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investment out on the shop floor there's

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a lot of increase in automation robots

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and cobots out on the floor for

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doing everything from deeper and a pistol

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slide so that we get an improvement

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in quality we get

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an improvement in throughput so that we'd

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get more pistols out to the market

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as well as things like a robotic

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loaded and unloaded 'em report so that

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the operators can spend times of more

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value added activities and let the automation

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handle the non-value added active so it

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fn were known a lot for our

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barrel manufacturing and there's really two different

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ways that we make our

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barrels or at least put the rifling

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and one is the hammer forge process

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we use that process for all of

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our machine gun barrels or scar barrels

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some of our higher in a our

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platform barrels the hammer forged process really

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gives you a long life barrel is

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going to help the barrel last a

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long time so we're able to take

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a lot of our know how and

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apply it to newer machines like our

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cnc can

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troll hammer forge machine which is allows

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us some very precise control the process

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of putting that rifling into the barrel

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one of the advantages we have at

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fn is a long tenured workforce along

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with that tenure becomes the expertise and

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in that expertise it's the things of

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knowing when does it fake extra craftsmanship

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and hands on touch when does it

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take more time

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technical approach investing in new machines and

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new processes and capabilities it's that combination

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that harmony between the craftsmanship and the

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growing technical skills that really gives us

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the capabilities at ff

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and in the end fn is known

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for its quality performance durability and everything

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we do leads to those results all

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of our project teams are designed around

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a collaborative model and the way we're

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successful is by maine

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attaining that collaboration and making sure that

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everybody is aligned behind the same goals

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and they're headed in the same direction

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the products that we produce here have

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been in use for decades a lot

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of cases fired us military services we

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take a lot of pride in what

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we make and continually making that product

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better and supporting those users but we're

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very ext

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i did every day about the ability

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to make that next generation of products

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and develop those tools that will be

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used to protect people's lives protect freedom

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and not just on the military segment

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but also with our tumors that rely

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on our products to do the same

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thing for them and their families it's

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really been very interesting

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they're gone back since i've been here

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to see the amount of change that

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we've pushed through we continue to push

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the envelope with new best practices and

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move forward with again going back to

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the consumer you know what our consumers

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want today or they want two years

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from now so we have a huge

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heritage and long standing history of great

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design engineers that deliver some of them

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most enduring firearms ever developed in the

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world and taken that history and transition

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it into the commercial market making consumer

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products so that everyone can enjoy the

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fn product to see a product go

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from ideation to the hands of the

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customer and the customer has complete satisfaction

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complete reliability complete confidence in the product

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and delivered

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it's very exciting to be part of

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that so fn is growing the future

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is very positive so we've been very

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busy out there preparing some new products

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so if you're a fan of fn

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the best is yet to come expect

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some more from us the

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and