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I've been looking for a New Black Belgium SCAR 17 or one with a very low round count these past few months, and I haven't had much luck finding one other then over on GB where they go for well over $4k. I know FN stopped importing them, but you can barely even find US Made SCAR 17s right now.

If anyone knows where I could find a Black Belgium 17 that is either new, or has a low round count and comes with the box and manual It would be much appreciated.

The "real" FN SCAR-H is manufactured at a plant in South Carolina, but the civilian version comes from a plant in Belgium. Yes, the country in Europe  a place where the market is significantly smaller for the civilian variant of a military firearm. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me for FNH to be importing these guns, especially considering that once you import the firearm into the country it comes under the control of that pesky 922(R) law that makes it a felony to slap a high capacity magazine in a freshly imported firearm.

FNH USA changes out a couple of minor parts to become 922(R) compliant and modifies the lower receivers to take the high capacity magazines once they enter the country (the remnants of the crippling process is the rib on the back of the magazine and the corresponding slot in the receiver) but it still doesn't make sense to me that they would set up a shop overseas to make the SCAR 17S for the US market when they already have a plant tooled up right here in the States. I'm sure it adds some dollars to the final price of the gun, which is not an inconsiderable amount.

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CORRECTED:  Apparently there were Belgian SCARs from 2008 - 2014.  They were brought in as sporting rifles.


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I thought that due to the GCA '68 as amended and the Bush import ban (sporting features) & maybe Belgian export laws, no complete 'civilian' SA SCAR was imported?

That all were assembled in the US on US receivers?

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Yes there are Belgian SCARs, its easy to tell when one is a Belgian SCAR. The lettering on them is White while the ones made in the US have all black lettering.

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Some people prefer the little differences that the Belgium receivers include.  Such as the surface lasered markings instead of deep cut.  More closely matches that of MK17 anodizing colors, though the newer US made ones are getting closer.

Also, Belgium guns had the barcode inventory sticker.

If anyone is wanting exact replica with matching serial barcodes for their Belgium or US made guns that either lost them or never had them (US made) PM me.  I can make them nearly indistinguishable from factory with same material and everything.

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Who wants the barcode? Mine stands out so much since its black. I’m removing it.