FNX 45 Review

This is the FNX-45 tactical FACP. Now, when you think of FN the word tactical probably doesn't even really need to be inserted for most of their guns. Where it's hand guns, long guns are a lot of the big stuff that they make for the military. You know, these are duty guns. These guns are built for combat, built for military law enforcement use.

Of course, they're available to you for your sporting use, your home defense maybe there's a carry gun as well. But when you look at the FNX-45 tactical, it's pretty clear that this one is meant for the armed professional. It was built for the business that they do obviously available to you as well. The way this is going to set up is a double action single action gun with a frame mounted de cocker and safety. So the gun can be carried as you see it here, in double action mode it can be carried in double action mode with the safety on.

It can be carried in single action mode with the hammer back and the safety on. So you've really got a couple of different things going on here. And then of course, that means that you're going to want to be consistent in how you would use this gun how you would stage this gun and make sure you get a lot of practice in the manipulation of that lever. And that lever is ambidextrous. The safety de cocker lever as is the mag catch as is the slide stop and slide release.

So you've got a fully ambidextrous gun set up here stainless steel construction. It's a 5.3 inch barrel. As you can see, it's a threaded barrel and the gun does come with suppressor height sights. One of the things I've been a little bit frustrated with from some of the manufacturers lately is they'll ship a gun with a threaded barrel, but it'll have standards heights sites. Doesn't make a lot of sense.

So FNX tactical 45 here, it takes care of that need. You can see also got the slide cut out for the red dot. Now the red dots in a typical home defense typical concealed carry situation probably not going to help you out that much but when you think about what this gun is capable of radar, a full-size grip course there's two back straps that you get to choose from aggressive stippling, aggressive serrations. If you think about the way this gun is potentially going to be used if it's put into a military unit, special operations unit obviously it's got the rails for laser light whatever you're gonna put on there, suppressor, the sights and that red dot may be the configuration that some people are going to like. If you're going to use this gun as a competition gun.

Certainly you're also, you get that extra weight, you get the extra length of the barrel and you get that red dot sight. Comes with two mounting plates also, cause there's different types of red dots you might want to put on here. It comes with both mounting plates for the MSRP. The other interesting thing about here, and I had to I had to check this to myself. One of the things they say with this 15 round magazine is that the reason it has this odd shaped, you know a little rounded magazine base plate is specifically meant for the orientation of the gun conveniently when you drop down to a prone position.

And you can see what I'm talking about here on the table I'll just you imagine this is the ground, if I were to drop down to the ground and need to shoot from the prone position this rounded base allows me to have a stable platform while I angle the gun up to the height presumably that I'd be shooting at if my head were back here behind the gun. So I thought that was interesting. It's kind of got a little built in mono pod because at first that seems like an odd configuration and odd shape for the magazine But if you understand why it was designed that way then it makes a little bit more sense. So before I chamber around, I'm gonna go and put that back down, get my eye protection on and let's fire a few shots from this thing. Now again, let's take a look at the different modes.

We've got the double action mode, right? I'm going to come out. I'm going to smoothly press that trigger. Come back in de cock, I'm back in double action mode because one of our principles we want consistency, we want to keep the gun in the same condition it is in the ready position, when it's in the holster. So if I'm carrying it double action mode with the safety on in the holster, now I'd be coming out of the holster driving out safety off fire that shot and come back in.

Safety goes back on in a single action mode lets try that. So again, I'm carrying in a single action mode. Come up, drive out, Safety goes off, fire that shot, come back out, drive out fire that shot Now, one of the issues with any kind of a double action single action gun as you can see is, is what happens when we have a single action trigger pull verses a double action trigger pole. Now these are the first shots I've ever firing out of this gun. As most of you who watch a lot of stuff I do here PDN know.

That quite often, that's what will happen if it's not a long-term testing evaluation review it's just an overview. I want to let you see me shoot it. Let me see that, that kind of getting used to the gun. Well, what you just saw was, I took up that long slack that first shot was a little bit slow. make sure I figured that trigger out very smooth double action trigger.

Second shot a little bit faster, no problem. Then I went to single action what happened just before I reach full extension that shot went off, right? Obviously single action shot went off a little bit to the left. Now I follow up shot the second time I pressed the single action trigger right back in the middle. One gun with two triggers you're going to need to make sure that you learn how to press that trigger consistently or obviously you could choose to carry it in a single action mode with the hammer cocked and the safety on.

And now you're only going to have to worry about that one particular trigger press put these glasses back on and let's take a look here specifically, you know suppressor heights sites sometimes a little bit finicky, and then a lot more luck. A lot more going on. But if we take a look at that number three, you know those three shots are all in there and that's good enough for me. If I can pick up a gun and be able to shoot it, I don't know what this is. Maybe 20 feet, 20, 23 feet, something like that.

If I can pick up a gun and know that those sites are good enough to hit that three inch circle in the center of the head that's going to be good enough. Now you put a red dot on here. You're capable of a lot higher level of precision. We drive this gun out and we're going to shoot at 50 yards. We dropped down, we use this little mono pod action.

We're rollover prone shooting at 80 yards, something like that. And it combative environment. Now we're going to need to make sure that that red dot or these suppressor height sites or whatever sites you may have on the gun are specifically tuned. The FNX-45 tactical. You know, it's a duty built gun.

It's built for military and law enforcement use. It's big, it's rugged, it's heavy, it's sturdy. And I think it would deliver really well in that environment. If it's the kind of thing that you're interested in as a sport shooter or possibly even for home defense or armed professional use here domestically the US, FN is definitely going to make it available to you in a reliable package. You can trust FN for durability, reliability and function.