We'll never see it.
very cool
i want one i want one! of course that full auto part probably means my civilian butt can't get one w/o some sort of license...
Very cool indeed.
Unfortunately though, the '86 freeze on the manufacture and import of any new machineguns signed by Bush I means even with a machinegun "license" (actually a $200 NFA tax stamp from the Treasury Dept.) you still can't legally own one.
I suppose it would be possible for FN to make a semi auto only 16" barreled model using 10 round magazines here domestically, but there's almost no point to that exercise. I suppose that when the '94 AWB sunsets, and if hopefully, not renewed, 50 round mags could be produced for it, (assuming our hypothetical domestic production from a FN plant in the US) and someone willing to pay for an $200 NFA short barreled rifle tax could someday have a close copy.
I can however attest to it's ergonomics being rather nice. The Tokyo Mauri electric airsoft I bought from a friends gaming/Airsoft store on Monday is rather neat.
It's an interesting concept, although I think that the new FN SS190 round 5.7x28mm is far too anemic, no matter how "penetrating" it is. If the U.S. military is suffering terminal performance issues from 5.56x45/.223 from 11" barreled M4 carbines, this round has to be way lacking.
The exact same platform, necked up to something like 7.62x28, sort of a really hot 7.62 "Super Tokarev" might show some promise. The Russian subguns in 7.62x25 loaded spicy out of SMG length barrels aquitted itself rather well in WWII.
