New FN 5.7x28mm Ammunition Available Now

FN America, LLC, the creator of the 5.7x28mm cartridge, is happy to announce the discharge of two new choices to prospects who personal 5.7-chambered firearms – FN DFNS™ for private safety and FN GUNR™ for coaching and vary use.

FN now affords a complete of 4 5.7 hundreds out there to the U.S. client market with choices starting from coaching, sport capturing, small recreation looking and private protection.

“For the reason that NATO standardization of 5.7x28mm, there was super development within the class and we acknowledged the necessity for dependable defensive ammunition and inexpensive ball ammunition for coaching, which is why we’re happy to introduce the FN DFNS private safety and FN GUNR coaching hundreds,” stated Chris Cole, Vice President of Gross sales for FN America, LLC. “FN has spent a few years perfecting the design and manufacturing course of for five.7x28mm ammunition to make sure that regardless of which FN 5.7 cartridge you load, it would perform reliably and ship the superior accuracy that 5.7 is thought for. Our prospects and 5.7 fans alike can rely on FN DFNS and GUNR to ship equally towards that promise.”

FN DFNS (SS200)

FN DFNS (SS200) is the primary 5.7x28mm ammunition perfected for private safety and delivers secure, dependable efficiency. FN DFNS is able to reaching a mean of roughly 2,067 feet-per-second whereas delivering roughly 286 foot-pounds of power from the muzzle. The distinctive 30-grain jacketed hole level bullet incorporates a copper-tin powdered core designed to expend power shortly and effectively whereas biking reliably. DFNS has been licensed by impartial testing to satisfy the FBI’s ammunition testing protocol to make sure that this high-performance spherical delivers accuracy and constant enlargement.

FN GUNR (SS201)

The all-new FN GUNR (SS201) 5.7x28mm coaching spherical places new coaching targets in attain for five.7 house owners. The 40-grain full steel jacketed cartridge includes a high-quality brass development with boxer primer and is designed to attain a mean of 1870 feet-per-second. The FN GUNR delivers extraordinarily low felt recoil, improved accuracy at prolonged ranges and dependable feeding throughout all 5.7-chambered firearms and is taken into account comparable in efficiency to FN’s different sporting hundreds.

FN 5.7x28mm ammunition is now out there in 50-round particular person packing containers or 500-round bulk pack instances and new retail packaging for FN’s legacy rounds will probably be launched within the coming 12 months.

Greater than 30 Years of FN 5.7x28mm

For the final three a long time, FN has perfected the design and manufacturing of 5.7x28mm ammunition. Solely the very best high quality brass, projectiles and primers are used together with proprietary coating strategies utilized throughout the loading course of. Adherence to those necessities ensures that every cartridge performs reliably and safely below the acute pressures generated by the spherical.

The event of the 5.7x28mm cartridge and FN P90® started within the late Nineteen Eighties in anticipation of a possible NATO PDW contract that might finally be referred to as Undertaking 90. By the Nineteen Nineties, FN was effectively underway with gross sales of its P90, already in service internationally. The FN 5-seveN® was developed within the mid to late Nineteen Nineties and would see service worldwide later that decade with the unique FN 5-seveN DAO together with its CIP-standardized ammunition. It, together with its PS90 carbine counterpart, had been launched to the U.S. business market within the mid-2000s. NATO standardized the caliber in 2021 and since, the class has continued to flourish with the introduction of the FN 5-seveN MRD optics-ready mannequin in 2022.

To study extra about FN 5.7x28mm ammunition and the firearms designed across the caliber, please go to www.fnamerica.com.

About FN America

Carry the Future® | FN America, LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of Belgium-based FN Herstal, S.A. offers U.S. navy, legislation enforcement, and business prospects with an entire vary of state-of-the-art, groundbreaking options developed round small caliber firearms and related ammunition below the FN model identify.

FN Herstal is the Protection & Safety entity of Herstal Group that additionally features a Searching & Sports activities Capturing entity (Browning and Winchester Firearms* model names) and operates globally.

FN product traces embody moveable firearms, much less deadly methods, built-in weapon methods for air, land, and sea purposes, distant weapon stations, small-caliber ammunition, in addition to trendy and cutting-edge options to supply enhanced fight, logistics, upkeep, and communication capabilities.

Along with FN America – headquartered in McLean, VA, with manufacturing operations in Columbia, SC –, FN Herstal is the guardian firm of FNH UK within the UK and Noptel (optoelectronics) in Finland.

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