It was close to a decade ago when FN released the first factory-produced, optics-ready, threaded-barrel pistol on the American market: the FNX Tactical chambered in .45ACP. FN saw the potential for optics-equipped-pistols, an idea that’s now completely permeated the market, well before the general public. Today, we’ll show you another pistol with multiple firsts from FN, the FN 502 Tactical: the first reciprocating slide-mounted optics-ready, rimfire pistol, complete with a threaded barrel, right out of the box. And oh yeah, you can probably use your existing FN 509 holsters for it too.
The FN 502 shares the exposed hammer and ambidextrous safety of the FNX Tactical, but the aesthetics clearly are a closer match to the FN 509T. It’s like they got together to make a subcaliber baby. Despite the close looks, the FN 502 is a completely new platform with very few parts interchanging with previous designs.
The model we have on-hand is a preproduction prototype, so there may be some minor differences between what you see on a store shelf and what graces these pages. We’ll do our
