Anyone on CGN had a chance to shoot or willing to share their opinion on this pistol,i don't know if this weapon has been allowed into Canada, some controversy about this pistol. Anyone know which countries have bought this gun in large numbers or if the Canadian Forces have evaluated it.
FN Five-SevenN Pistol
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iamcanadianeh
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- Vancouver Island
The FN fiveseven is prohibited along with the round it fires. I think this topic was beat to death last time someone brought it up. Definately a cool looking gun though 
darkestjedi
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iamcanadianeh said:The FN fiveseven is prohibited along with the round it fires. I think this topic was beat to death last time someone brought it up. Definately a cool looking gun though
The pistol is Not prohibited! The AP version of the round it fires is, but the non AP version of the round may not be.
- Location
- Halifax - NS
x westie said:
I shot it for an afternoon - got about 100 rounds through it.
I found recoil to be along the same lines as a 9mm and the gun to be quite comfortable. The price of ammo was horrifying, although FN promised it to be coming down as more pistols and P90s got into the system.
FN provided two types of ammo that day for testing; one duty and one training. The duty was definately AP. (We got it through 8 layers of kevlar - and that's only because we only had 4 vests to shoot at) I'm not sure what the training ammo was.
I can't comment on legality as I was a guest of a police force and it was irrelevant what the classification was on any of it to them at the time.
Defining AP on ammo is vague. Without getting too specific for those reading this forum from the department of Justice, I'd say that an awful lot of 9mm based (not 9mm luger) fmj ammo out there is AP on 90% of the vests that LE and Security are wearing out there now, and please show me a bottleneck rifle round that is not AP on soft body armor.
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta
We established in another thread that the training round will also penetrate threat level IIA body armour. Just as 7.62x25mm Tokarev and a few other pistol rounds will.
Like I said before, the AP round was designed to penetrate NATO body armour, threat level IIA body armour is a different ballgame. It doesn't mean the training round is "armour piercing", it just happens to be able to penetrate threat level IIA body armour, as most rifle rounds and some other pistol rounds can.
Also, whether or not the ammo is prohibited is moot, because it's not on the approved list of ammo for import. It'd be interesting to know where the ammo came from for that shoot you went to. Perhaps it has been recently approved. It's not on the September list: http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/mms/explosif/auth-list/explo2b.pdf
Like I said before, the AP round was designed to penetrate NATO body armour, threat level IIA body armour is a different ballgame. It doesn't mean the training round is "armour piercing", it just happens to be able to penetrate threat level IIA body armour, as most rifle rounds and some other pistol rounds can.
Also, whether or not the ammo is prohibited is moot, because it's not on the approved list of ammo for import. It'd be interesting to know where the ammo came from for that shoot you went to. Perhaps it has been recently approved. It's not on the September list: http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/mms/explosif/auth-list/explo2b.pdf
