FN Browning Group now owns Accuracy International after completing a takeover announced in May that needed regulatory approval. Accuracy International designs and makes precision rifle systems and was founded in Portsmouth in 1980. It will keep operating under its own name.

The parent company is based in Belgium, has 4,200 staff and more than 20 factories in nine NATO countries, and works in defence, security, hunting and sports shooting. The deal adds precision and extreme long-range rifles to the group and enlarges its United Kingdom operations beside FN UK, Eley Hawk and its Sentinel Photonics holding, making the pair the United Kingdom's only manufacturer of both military machine guns and rifles.