The Luxembourg models except for the Gendarmerie contract were sold as surplus in the United States, some were distributed to purchasers in larger US chain retail outlets. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg would eventually purchase a total of 6,306 rifles including rifles specifically for Luxembourg's Gendarmerie, which were FN-49s that comprised standard models, training cut-away rifles, and sniper variants, all in caliber. Luxembourg was the fourth country to order the SAFN 1949 rifles with the first order placed on Octoand taking possession of the first 1500 rifles by May 5, 1951. The AFN was also used by the Marines of the Belgian Navy or ZM-FN. It is sometimes stated that all the ABL weapons were either built as a selective fireautomatic rifle or that all could be readily convertible to selective fireautomatic rifle. A fully automatic, selective fire version, known as the AFN was produced for the Belgian military. The contracts for the SAFN 1949 rifle made by FN for Belgium totaled 87,777 rifles total, composing almost half of all FN-49 rifles ever produced. The Belgians designated the rifle as the ABL SAFN-49, ABL is an acronym for the Belgian Army in both French and Dutch 'AB' for the French 'Armée Belge' and 'BL' for the Dutch 'Belgisch Leger'. The Belgians would make a contract for production of the SAFN 1949 rifle on Augfor 6000 rifles in caliber. The third contract was ordered by the Belgian government starting with thirty test rifles on May 12, 1949, received on August 31, 1949, and made a second larger order for 100 test rifles delivered by December 12, 1949. Iron sights / OIP 4x Telescopic sight on Belgium Sniper rifle Gas-operated short-stroke piston, tilting boltġ0-round fixed box magazine, 20-round detachable box magazine in Argentine 7.62×51mm NATO conversions I have never heard of the FN in 6.5 and judging from the serial number.Jump to navigationJump to search FN Model 1949 I have been running several FN-49 surveys on a number. FN Herstal (FNH), in Belgium (Stevens and. Annexe 4 – Serial numbers of example FAL rifles documented in the MENA region since 2011.
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