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Featuring an improved, patent-pending design, OPS-16R™ offers consumers the most reasonably priced, impressively outfitted, self-regulating piston AR-15 on the market
MINDEN, Nev. –– Franklin Armory®, Inc., one of America’s most innovative manufacturers of firearms and accessories, has begun shipping the first variant of its patent-pending Osprey Defense piston-driven AR series. Setting the Osprey Defense short stroke piston system apart from others is its self-regulating, low-profile design that enables users to shoot suppressed and unsuppressed seamlessly without any need for adjustments to the gas block.
The first units shipping of Franklin Armory’s Osprey Defense series is OPS-16R™, a 16-inch barreled rifle, chambered in 5.56 NATO. OPS-16R features an ultra-slimline M-LOK handguard, B5 Systems stock and grip, and Franklin Armory’s proprietary Triumvir® linear-compensating flash suppressor muzzle device. The base OPS-16R has an MSRP of only $1,349.99 for a complete piston-driven MSR. The Binary Firing System® equipped configuration has an MSRP of $1,539.99. Franklin Armory’s Osprey Defense piston system is also available as a complete upper receiver with 16-inch barrel at an MSRP of only $849.99.
To learn more about the new OPS-16R, visit FranklinArmory.com. You can also keep up to date on new product announcements by following the organization on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Rumble, and YouTube. To inquire about testing and evaluation for the new OPS-16R, Binary® triggers and, other Franklin Armory products, please email media@franklinarmory.com.
About Franklin Armory®
Safeguarding the God-given right to protect self and property is Franklin Armory’s enduring mission. From the “Battle Born” State of Nevada, the firm engineers and manufactures quality firearms and accessories for sporting, defense, and law enforcement applications. Highly adept at creating innovative products that are 100% designed, machined, and built in America, the People of Franklin Armory are genuine Facilitators of Freedom™.