
If the bore is chromed, there will be a transition from black to chrome about halfway between the bore and the OD of the barrel. Remove the flash hider and look at the muzzle. FNMI makes our own barrels.īack to the topic of the chroming. In the case of a Barrel: a FNMI barrel on the commercial market is stolen. It is more likely that a significant fraction of those parts are not acceptable to FNMI and the USG. For example, changing of a firearm barrel will make impossible the identification of a bullet fired with the same weapon since the markings of the new. Colt Barrel Markings: Serial 710,00 to End of ProductionArria Lancer X White Horse. There is a potential that 999 of those 1000 parts were perfectly fine, and we happened to find the one bad part. The M-16, being a military grade weapon, has an The M16, AR-10. Colt 604 M16 Upper Assembly, 20' Pencil Barrel, Triangle Handguards, No Ejection Port Cover, 1969-1970, 5.56 NATO Good Add to Cart. Now the vendor has a pile of parts they can' sell to us, so to recoup their cost, they may try to sell the parts on the open market. The vendor is generally not allowed to send any of those parts back to us. If any dimension on any of the parts is out of tolerance, than the entire lot is returned to the vendor. FNMI then inspects a certain sample size. That means that the vendor sends us, say, 1000 bolts. Both the bolt and the bolt carrier for the M16 are made by a sub contractor. The parts that do pop up with FNMI markings are either stolen, or they were put on the market by FNMI vendors from a rejected lot.Īn example of this is bolts and bolt carriers. FNMI's contract stipulates NO commercial sales of weapons or parts. [ There are no FNMI AR/M16 parts on the market.
