FN America’s first entry into the optics category is the PUREVIEW, a holographic micro red dot, and according to the company it’s the first of its kind for pistols. Instead of the curved lenses that define nearly every enclosed sight on the market, it uses a licensed ImageGuide projection system to place a 3-MOA dot onto a single pane of flat glass that sits parallel to your line of sight.
The practical payoff is parallax-free aiming with noticeably more light coming through the window. Curved glass bends what you see. Flat glass does not. For a shooter trying to pick up the dot quickly under pressure or extend accuracy out past conversational distances, the difference is real.
What FN has built around that optical core is a sight that weighs 1.55 ounces with the battery installed, which FN says is roughly 25 percent lighter than comparable enclosed red dots.
The housing is aerospace-grade 7075 aluminum with titanium accents. It’s fully submersible and rated for operation from -40°F to 126°F. If the glass cracks, the reticle stays visible and stays zeroed.
Adjustments for windage and elevation is in 1-MOA clicks. The adjustment range for both is 200 MOA.
Fourteen brightness settings include three night-vision compatible levels and three calibrated for bright daylight. Motion-sensing wakes the optic when the pistol moves and puts it back to sleep when it does not, stretching a CR2032 to roughly 800 hours of continuous use or up to a year with the battery saver working.
The battery loads from the top, so swaps happen without pulling the sight off the gun or touching the zero.
Mounting is proprietary to FN. The PUREVIEW drops natively onto the FN 509, FN 510, FN 545 and FN Five-seveN in their MRD, Tactical and Edge configurations.
MSRP is $749 in black or flat dark earth, both shipping without a mount. FN says availability is coming later this year through fnamerica.com.
