SIG has a press release out this morning announcing that the Virtus has been adopted by Orlando PD. At some point it might be interesting to compile a list of departments (both home and abroad) using the MCX.
The SIG 516 appears to have been dropped from the civilian 2019 catalog and is now only available for LE/MIL sales. I can see it eventually being dropped completely in favor of the MCX.
Now if we can get a 308 version....
Edit to add: Would the market want a rifle based on something like the DPMS G2 308? This could be coupled with something like the Hydra mag well that could be swapped out depending on need. Combine this with an upper that will accept a 5.56 or 7.62 (both x39 and x51) barrel. This new system would probably need both a heavy and light bolt carrier that would be swapped with the barrels and mag wells but it would give unprecedented versatility. Unprecedented cost too perhaps....
Last edited by Tokarev; 02-19-19 at 06:02.
“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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