Posted on 02/29/2008 11:06:38 PM PST by ansel12
By now, just about everyone and their mother should be aware that Bushmaster Firearms (now wholly owned by seemingly unstoppable and more-than-a-little-ominous, voracious and rapacious gun-company-gobbling juggernaut Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.) will be manufacturing the multi-caliber MagPul Masada assault rifle/carbine under the name "Adaptive Combat Rifle", or "ACR" for short. But another MagPul item has been getting a good bit of press since the show, as well, and that's the slick little MagPul FMG9 (or, FMG-9) prototype folding 9mm Parabellum (9x19mm NATO ) mini / micro-submachine gun (SMG) that utilizes a Glock 17 slide and any factory Glock 9mm magazine, including 30-33-round Glock 18 mags. "FMG" would seem to stand for "Folding Machine Gun".
In it's closed position, while you're carrying it around, the MagPul FMG9 is designed to look something like a...
portable radio, and incorporates a detachable tactical white light. Drake Clark, MagPul's resident media/PR manager showed the FMG 9 to DefenseReview at the very beginning of the show, and MagPul's resident designer/engineer Mike Mayberry ended up taking us through the weapon a little later on in the show. The FMG9 mini-SMG is very slickly designed and looks like a fully-developed product, which is particularly impressive considering that, according to our understanding at present, Mayberry and the MagPul team developed the FMG9 on short notice specifically for the show (SHOT Show 2008). The MagPul FMG 9 9mm subgun essentially shows in microcosm all of MagPul's creativity and product design and development strengths (including ergonomics and "usernomics")--and, yes, perhaps even a desire to entertain--in one little lethal foldable SMG package. No matter how one feels about mini-subguns or micro-subguns, one must acknowledge the rapid-design & development skill the FMG9 showcases. You really have to see the FMG9 folding/foldable subgun being opened, closed, and handled to fully appreciate it.
By the way, counter to what's been stated by some folks on the web (on YouTube, specifically), I believe I remember Rich Fitzpatrick informing me (verbally) at the end of the show that MagPul does indeed intend to put the FMG into production in limited quantities as an SBR (Short Barreled Rifle). We'll try to verify this.
And, let's hope the FMG shoots as good as it looks. After all, that is what ultimately matters.
Editor's Note: Regarding what I stated at the beginning of this article about Cerberus, I was stating it semi-tongue-in-cheek. DefenseReview has been told by various professional/industry contacts of ours that the Cerburus guys are gun guys first and foremost and very pro-Second Amendment, benevolent regarding the gun companies they've been acquiring (Bushmaster, Remington, Cobb Manufacturing, etc.), and all-around good guys, which is a very good thing. However, since I've never actually met, spoken with, or even seen one of these guys, based on their behavior and rather serious financial capabilities, I can't help thinking of The Star Chamber (1983). What these Cerberus guys want, they get. They're powerful, well-financed, determined, and deliberate in action. So, let's hope that the rumors about what great guys they are are true. And, if we ever end up spotting one of these guys in the wild prowling around in their natural habitat, we'll let you know. So far, though, they've been about as easy to spot as a Chupacabra.
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“gun-company-gobbling juggernaut Cerberus Capital Management”
The same people who now own Chrysler? Do they plan to offer hemi’s in those guns? Will Mopar have an after-market kit for those who must drive thru really bad neighborhoods?
Does this mean that there will be a new “Southern Lebanon” option for the Jeep Liberty?
oh boy.
uh......
These should not even be permitted to be sold.
I want two of ‘em.
Those would fit quote nicely in the glovebox of a Dodge Caravan...
Wouldn’t mind a sixpack of them.
“I want two of ‘em.”
Perhaps the sexiest firearm I have ever seen.
Bump
*whimper* Now where’s the kit to convert the glock to it?
That’s more awesome than a grizzly bear eating a raw PETA hippy in a strip club.
9mm again... Friends don’t let friends shoot 9mms.
And it won't go away.
LOL.... What a mental image.
AOW stands for Any Other Weapon. I'm no expert, but know enough to research it. I have a KelTec PF9 for CCW. Its much smaller and cheaper than this and has proven 100%. (9mm's not my favorite choice, but better than finger nails.)
Couldn’t it be sold under the same conditions that Kel-TEC’s SUB-2000 can be sold. My understanding is that when folded it cannot be fired, and deployed it carries the necessary barrel length.
Hmm..I think I just answered my own question. Barrel length would probably place it in the AOW category, not to mention the stock.
Still, I’d like to have a couple of them. They’d be great for the glove compartment of my car.
“It makes great gun porn, but unless you want it registered, not worth the expense. Just get a regular small 9mm pistol.”
This is about lust not reality, we all have our regular pistols and AR-15s and short pump shotguns etc.
This is more along the lines of still wanting to see the slender blond twins with the 38 inch gazoos, even though we will never have them.
Looks a lot like the Russian PP-90
Which copied the M-21 from David Boatman
which copied the Eugene Stoner Area folding SMG.
All very cool and I want AT LEAST two.
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