SIG MCX: When is an AR not an AR?
As many of you may know, SIG has been working on/rumoring about a rifle modeled after the MPX for awhile. Well, the gun has officially been released and it is called the MCX.
Cabela's apparently got in an entire shipment and might possibly be the only available outlet for these new guns. That's just a guess on my part but I say this because I've seen none on gunbroker and neither Osage County Guns nor Bud's is showing it on their websites.
The MCX is currently available in a 16" format as well as a pistol format with SIG arm brace. Guns being sold by Cabela's come with a 300 AAC Blackout barrel installed and include an additional barrel in 223 Remington. Both barrels are complete, to include gas system parts.
I picked one of these guns up over the last weekend and swapped out the factory 3-prong for an AAC 51T on the Blackout barrel. Honestly, I don't need another 223 and don't even plan on using the other barrel at this point.
Anyway, I am going to refer--maybe incorrectly--to the MCX as an AR variant. The design isn't much like an AR internally but it does share some common parts and accepts AR magazines. Manual of arms is AR across the board.
The gun remains unfired at this point. I hope to rectify that this weekend.
Last edited by Tokarev; 02-10-15 at 15:52.
“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
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