Thread by @WeaponOutfitter

BRO this is absolutely INSANE pricing for a FN SCAR.

The biggest knock on the SCAR is always just the price, so the fact these are getting clearanced out below dealer cost means you wanna MOVE on this.

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Guns are either funded in-house, or paid for by contracts, and the US Gov basically paid for FN to design the SCAR.

It has some issues due to "design by committee" and in the mid aughts modularity was huge. They wanted a "universal receiver" type rifle

This means you can swap the barrel in 2 minutes with a calibrated torque wrench with T-25 bit (did this last week) but the receiver has to work with CQB and DMR barrels alike.

Not very useful in practical application, but it can be handy with how easy it is swap major components

The design is "extruded aluminum receiver, everything bolts/screws to it"

Very easy to mass produce, easy to scale. FN's competitive advantage is their BARRELs and the FN SCAR's barrel goes to 70K on rental guns (drops to 4 MOA), it's wild!

Most of the technology, cost of a SCAR is in the barrel. Replacement barrels with the integrated gas block, piston, front sight, are $1,300 lol.

However, when I got my old clapped out, formerly rental gun SCAR, I dropped in a barrel and it was as good as new! Nuts!

"Must do" upgrades

- GAS JETs, a must do with @parkerMmachine 's tool and replacement gas jets. Factory is hilarious over gassed

-Piston Regulator: Adding a regulator with a "suppressor" setting or custom tunable regulator is a good idea if using suppressors.

@parkerMmachine "Optional" upgrades

-Rail extensions to add more rail real estate due to the universal receiver design concept cutting back on usable space. PMM again for the win

-Ergonomic and control upgrades like PMM M-LOK replacement of rails, sling mounts, AR stock adapters etc.