FN browning to buy accuracy International

[deye243]

Well if the new rifles are anything like The Browning rifles I've had to deal with in the last 20 years in the long range Arena British snipers are about to become endangered species .
With what accuracy international has done with sniper rifles 8n the past 48 years there is no way known in hell the British government should allow this to happen

[Wapiti]

Maybe the owners are selling the company on a high, and have seen that anyone with a home-grown business in Australia is now going to be ass-raped by Labor here and are concerned it will be replicated there.
Albanese and Starmer are openly lover of each others socialist manifestos and on the same page, maybe they want out before a money-incompetent government steals the cream of what they have built.

Though seriously (Yeah right) if a company wants to sell, sometimes they don't get a buyer in their own country... like Australia, buying a defence/firearms business or trying to set one up is like smashing all your fingers one-by-one with a hammer.

[Wapiti]

Browning did buy Winchester, and the quality of the firearms, including levers and the Model 70 which were frankly rubbish at the time, went to where the myth of the 'pre-64" was in the minds of the dreamers. They actually became nice firearms that were accurate and tight.
As tight as the sloppy '98 Mauser derivatives can get, anyway.

I remember Browning-made Model 70's that were done up in heavy barrelled tactical form, made in Japan in the mid '00's that actually printed startling groups, for Winchesters anyway. They were aimed at the domination of the tactical Remingtons at the time, and actually competed with them for accuracy.

But I don't think that Browning can bring anything to the AI rifles. They have been outstanding because they haven't yet been meddled with by a huge company that has morons sitting around boardroom tables drinking soy lattes.

[straightshooter]

Oh BooHoo for AI
They have been skirting receivership for some time and they have probably gotten the message that their success "isn't guaranteed" in the coming 2027 UK sniper trials.
In the 1980's trials, which was AI versus Parker Hale, the PH M85 was found to be equal or superior in every facet of the trial except for ease of armoring at the front line.
As if that was an issue for a precision instrument as compared to a grunt's rifle.
Nevertheless the AI was selected. I leave it to your imagination as to what else may have been involved.
FN will have been sold a pup unless they know precisely who to lobby and duchess.