At the industry launch event for their new LS Edge pistol in late 2020, FN America’s PowerPoint presentation to the media attendees said the new longslide was the first entry in what was planned to be an entire “Edge” subdivision of the company’s lineup.
They compared it to the “M” Motorsports division at BMW or AMG over at Mercedes-Benz because marketing types are loathe to directly invoke more direct analogs like Smith & Wesson’s Performance Center or the Legion series at SIG Sauer. We were left to make that connection for ourselves, which of course we did.
For its first year, the Edge series consisted of that lone specimen, the 509 LS Edge (see RECOIL Issue 53). Intended as a competition-ready weapon for everything from IDPA Standard Service Pistol to Carry Optics in USPSA, it was also positioned as a dual-purpose threat out of the box, being suitable for the duty holsters of police tactical teams … at least relatively well-heeled ones. There are even people who have no problem carrying a longslide like a
