Quote History Quoted:He's going off data from sites that have information like
this.Primarily seems to be within the realm of the SCAR 17 and silencers with higher backpressure but seems to be at least a handful of people that had to pay out of pocket to fix split carriers.
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I’m aware of the information. Has nothing to do with a 16. Only ones I’ve seen reported as cracked are 17’s with very high back pressure cans and the owners didn’t replace their gas jets. SCAR’s were built from the ground up to be suppressed weapons. However, there was such a wide range of back pressure differences between various cans on the civilian market, coupled with often weaker civilian.308 ammo that they decided to go with a larger gas jet on civilian SCAR 17’s to ensure they ran reliably with shitty ammo. Once they had enough come back from people hurting their rifles from the mix of their different back pressure cans, ammo, and larger gas jets the bean counters as FN decided it was far simpler and cheaper to say “no suppressors” for the warranty vs “you can only use cans x,y,z. You need x,y,z gas jets. Etc.” to stay within warranty. Same exact reason gun companies don’t warranty guns using reloaded ammunition. To many variables to account for.
And out of the box the gun is good to go. No reason to change anything except for personal preference. While the G Trigger is an awesome upgrade, my factory trigger was much nicer then any standard mil-spec AR trigger I’ve shot.