B&T TP9 forced reset lever first look: the Marksman and Cloak FRL

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• The FRL is a forced reset lever for the B&T TP9, designed by Marksman Guns and Ammo in Peoria and brought to market with Cloak Industries; the lever rides a cam path that resets the trigger bar.
• It keeps the TP9's factory firing pin safety and works with both the crossbolt and the lever-style safeties found on different TP9 variants.
• It currently ships as a two-position setup, safe and forced-reset fire, and the makers are developing a third position that will integrate with the existing safeties.
• The host found it made the TP9's widely criticized semi-auto trigger a non-factor, and more intuitive than the pistol FRTs they have run, including the Texas Triggers P320 FRT.
• This was a single range session rather than a burndown; the gun ran without problems, but the host cites reliability trouble at Brass Facts and Badlands and expects an FRT to speed up wear.
• The engineer behind the FRL advises running the TP9 with grease rather than ordinary gun lube to reduce wear on parts.
• The video places the TP9, a descendant of the Steyr TMP, against newer compact PDWs such as the Flux Raider P320 chassis and B&T's own USW-A1.

About this First Look video

B&T TP9 forced reset lever first look from Administrative Results: the FRL from Marksman Guns and Ammo and Cloak Industries uses a lever riding a cam path to reset the trigger bar, keeps the factory firing pin safety and works with both crossbolt and lever safeties. The host finds it makes the TP9's much-criticized semi-auto trigger a non-factor, but this is one range session, not a burndown, and questions about TP9 reliability remain.

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