I just recently (9 days ago) aquired an FNP-9 9mm pistol. It has great ergo's, 3 maazines, and looks awesome. It was accurate too. I really loved this pistol until a couple days ago at the range the decocker decides to engage sometime when I'm firing double action causing the round not to fire, or the hammer from dropping all the way.
This makes me....ehh...not so happy. I want my gun to fire....I hope that isn't too much to ask. The several instances where the slide didn't lock back on an empty magazine or the light strike or the FTE didn't even bother me. I thought it was a combination of having to break it in or the crappy silver bear ammo i was using.
Nope, upon inspection it seems that the polymer frame that houses the decocking mechanism has decided to crack. When the pistol is decocked, the hammer goes into a pseudo half-cock that prevents the hammer from hitting the firing pin, that's great. What isn't so great is that there is a plastic housign that the whole deal is pinned into and that housing takes some of the force of stopping the decocker.
Well appearantly in my 9 days of owning it, 2 trips to the range firing 300 rounds and dry-firing (which the manual says nothing about either way) that plastic housing has split on the right side causeing my decocking mechanism to literally shift inside the gun and to malfunction.
Needless to say, I'm disappointed. I will send it in for repairs, but when I get it back I'm going to sell it and buy something else. Maybe a Glock or CZ75b or a Taurus PT92. I bought it at a gunshow, and I might be able to return it, but I'm really not sure. I can't think of how I'll get back what I paid for it if I have to sell it.
A big thumbs down to the FNP for me. I really wanted to like this pistol despite it's less-than-stellar reliability in the 300 rounds I fired, but I need something that works.
FN, you need to put metal around the decocking mechanism.
This makes me....ehh...not so happy. I want my gun to fire....I hope that isn't too much to ask. The several instances where the slide didn't lock back on an empty magazine or the light strike or the FTE didn't even bother me. I thought it was a combination of having to break it in or the crappy silver bear ammo i was using.
Nope, upon inspection it seems that the polymer frame that houses the decocking mechanism has decided to crack. When the pistol is decocked, the hammer goes into a pseudo half-cock that prevents the hammer from hitting the firing pin, that's great. What isn't so great is that there is a plastic housign that the whole deal is pinned into and that housing takes some of the force of stopping the decocker.
Well appearantly in my 9 days of owning it, 2 trips to the range firing 300 rounds and dry-firing (which the manual says nothing about either way) that plastic housing has split on the right side causeing my decocking mechanism to literally shift inside the gun and to malfunction.
Needless to say, I'm disappointed. I will send it in for repairs, but when I get it back I'm going to sell it and buy something else. Maybe a Glock or CZ75b or a Taurus PT92. I bought it at a gunshow, and I might be able to return it, but I'm really not sure. I can't think of how I'll get back what I paid for it if I have to sell it.
A big thumbs down to the FNP for me. I really wanted to like this pistol despite it's less-than-stellar reliability in the 300 rounds I fired, but I need something that works.
FN, you need to put metal around the decocking mechanism.
