FAXON SPORT 16" 9MM PCC RIFLE

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What’s on This Rifle

The parts that decide how an AR-15 shoots are Faxon parts, and each one is sold on its own: every card links to its product page, specs, and reviews.

Controls, Furniture, and What’s in the Box

What SPORT Means

The SPORT line is Faxon’s starting point: built for new shooters and ready to grow with you. Every SPORT firearm gets a Faxon-made barrel, a superfinished Faxon bolt carrier group, and Faxon’s enhanced forged receiver set, with mil-spec furniture and controls. You get the parts that decide accuracy and reliability now, and plenty of room to upgrade the rest later. See every SPORT firearm or compare all four lines.

Why 9mm in a 16″ AR-15 rifle

A 9mm AR shoots soft, costs less per round, and is quiet with a can. It’s straight blowback: no gas system, so the full-mass carrier and buffer do the work. The barrel’s extension is milled as one piece with the barrel, and the lower runs Glock®-pattern magazines, the same ones the most common duty pistols use.

Running a Suppressor

The muzzle is threaded 1/2x28 with a 9mm bore. Remove the muzzle device and thread on a 9mm direct-thread can, or add a Plan B compatible 9mm flash hider for a HUB mount. A blowback 9mm has no gas to tune; 147 gr loads are subsonic.

How It’s Built and Inspected

What Makes a Good PCC, and How This One Stacks Up

Reviewers who rank AR-15s weigh the same things: reliability, accuracy, build quality, and value, which come down to the barrel, the gas system, the bolt carrier group, the trigger, and the receivers. Here’s this one, part by part.

What Reviewers and Owners Say

This configuration is new, so it has few reviews of its own yet. Every major part on it is sold on its own, so here’s what independent reviewers and Faxon customers have said about the barrel, receivers, carrier, handguard, and gas block.

Average ratings on FaxonFirearms.com, out of 5 stars: 16″ Light Taper 9mm barrel: 5.0; BCG: 5.0; handguard: 4.8.

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SPORT 16″ 9mm FAQs

Is the Faxon SPORT 16″ 9mm PCC Rifle a good 9mm PCC?

It’s built around the parts that matter most: a Faxon Duty Series 4150 CMV barrel that’s borescoped, air gauged, headspace gauged, and 100% MPI inspected; Faxon forged receivers; the Superfinished 9mm PCC blowback full-mass BCG, Gen 2; and a free-float M-LOK handguard. It’s assembled in Ohio by the company that makes the barrel, and it’s covered by the Faxon Lifetime Guarantee.

What comes in the box?

The complete PCC rifle, Elite Tactical Systems 31-round 9mm, Glock®-pattern magazine, cable lock, chamber flag, owner’s manual. Optics, sling, and suppressor are not included.

What ammunition and magazines does it use?

9mm Luger. Magazines: Glock®-pattern 9mm magazines. Bolt: Gen 2 full-mass 9mm blowback BCG (Glock and Colt compatible) (installed).

Can I put a suppressor on it?

Yes. The muzzle is threaded 1/2x28, so a direct-thread mount or a muzzle-device mount works. A blowback 9mm has no gas to tune.

What’s the difference between SPORT, PRO, and PREMIERE?

All three use Faxon barrels, superfinished Faxon BCGs, and Faxon forged receivers. SPORT keeps mil-spec furniture and controls to hold the price down. PRO adds the Schmid® match trigger, ambi safety, BREEK® gas-blocking charging handle, B5 Systems® furniture or an SB Tactical® brace, and an optimized Faxon muzzle device. PREMIERE adds Match Series 1:5 barrels, the patented adjustable gas block, and Plan B suppressor-ready muzzles.

Nitride or chrome lining: which is better?

Chrome lining still has its place, mainly sustained automatic fire. For the vast majority of shooters, Faxon’s salt-bath QPQ nitride does what they need and more: it hardens the bore and exterior, resists corrosion, adds virtually nothing to the dimensions (a few ten-thousandths of an inch, about a tenth the width of a human hair), and needs little to no break-in.

How does it ship?

To a licensed dealer (FFL). Enter your dealer’s information at checkout. Federal, state, and local laws apply.

Where is it made, and what is the warranty?

Faxon makes the barrel, receivers, and muzzle device in Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, and assembles the PCC rifle there. It’s covered by the Faxon Lifetime Guarantee.

MuzzLok®, HARMONIX®, CORESYNC®, and Integral® are trademarks of Faxon Firearms. BREEK®, Schmid®, B5 Systems®, SB Tactical®, Magpul®, PMAG®, Lancer®, Mission First Tactical®, Cerakote®, and Glock® are trademarks of their owners; Faxon is not affiliated with them. “Plan B” is a trademark of Q, LLC; Faxon Firearms is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Q, LLC. Firearm, pistol brace, suppressor, and barrel-length laws vary by state and locality; know and follow the laws where you live.