Why a 10mm 1911-style handgun? “It was our most requested caliber,” STI’s CEO Tim Dillon told me in a cozy curtained corner of their otherwise frenetic SHOT Show booth. And lo it did come to pass: an 8+1 capacity, 10mm handgun with a 5″ slide that weighs slightly less than a SMART car. And costs more than a month’s lease payment ($1514). Available in four months.
I can’t even find the basic rules of gun safety on their website. If the idea is to educate the public, they should at least provide links to trusted resources.
How will this rule apply to heated discussions over the serial comma and proper use of the possessive with nouns ending in -s? Can I flame someone for blind adherence to Strunk & White? (Seriously, the policy seems fine.)
Six young adults charged with firearms violation….without firearms.
I……..But……..How………Why…….? 🙁
But how do they justify a $850 increase for the larger can. I can’t see material and labor taking that much more, it’s not that much of an increase in size and tooling time couldn’t take that much longer? Or am I way off base?
Man-hours of R&D on top of the smaller version’s confirmation.
On a related subject, could TTAG stop by the Vltor booth and inquire about the status of the Fortis/Bren Ten project? According to their CEO they’re still working on it as of a letter dated this month on the Fortis blog.
How about carbon fiber forends for the 716?
Any word on the “other” ghost? The VLTOR Bren Ten?
I’ll take SWORDS for $300…
I’ve had my Viridian C5L for more than six months and I’m still on the first battery, with plenty of use.
It’s about time Crimson Trace did some green lasers, as I find the red ones to be fairly useless in daylight.
Is the Crimson Trace one of the new ‘true green’ laser modules or is it a diode pumped IR laser with a frequency splitter like almost all other green lasers on the market (including Viridian)? The advantage of true green is power consumption and possibly longer life, but they are still very expensive.
Not really a fan of bullet drop optics, but I do like this one… maybe, if the price is right!
My trap gun is a Beretta 682X Super Trap (high rib, wide receiver). It was manufactured in 1990, so it is 4 years older than I am. However, I picked it up for $900 (MSRP about $3000), and went on to compete with it at the local, state, and national levels. Never once has it given me so much as a hiccup, and I absolutely love it.
Guns are one of the last consumer goods that are still built to last for generations. Thank you Perazzi, for I will pick up one of your used guns that someone is dumping to buy a new one. Hey, the used one will already be broken in for me too!
Yeah these things keep popping up in prototype phase long enough to get a bid and then everyone realizes that making the battlefield MORE complicated and prone to failures is only a good idea if it brings something really useful to the table… like a gunship. Not this.
I get a kick out of everyone saying that Ruger announcing the new caliber offerings in the American isn’t really something new. Maybe it isn’t an entirely new, ground-up design, but it is a new offering from them. I can just see a Ruger rep lurking behind a display waiting for a reporter to come by….
“Pst, hey. Hey c’mere. So Ruger’s got this thing and it’s not new, don’t get me wrong. But we have an additional variation on a theme we have going with our American Rifle. But it’s no big deal, just another caliber offering, and a different choice in material for the receiver and barrel.
But nothing new….you know, sorry I mentioned it. I’m just gonna go back to my corner and let you interview people about all the new AR-15’s, cause everybody knows there always groundbreaking and unique innovation coming out of the hundreds of AR and 1911 companies.”
You can’t fix stupid.
I like it. It reminds me of the original RS mount before they they started changing everything and ruining the design.
lame story
Their protest sign is a parody-worthy example of a circular argument? Good god these people are oblivious.
I would say the “Sensible Gun Laws Make Sense” sign is very true. And the only gun laws that make any sense are the ones that say, outlaw murder, armed robbery, rape, etc. regardless of the weapon used. Guns don’t really need any special attention, now that just makes sense!
Wow, that’ dedication – Paying to watch the Seahawks LOSE! 😉
When I first got the shooting bug, had to go cheap, Once I had more funds, sold the less than high quality weapons to help buy better quality, hope they went to folks just starting out with limited income. All were in good shape and goes bang
Maybe I’m a Phillistine (okay, not maybe, I am a Phillistine) but I never “got” 10mm, or .40, .45 GAP or .41 AE (remember that one?). They all seem like answers to questions no one asked. Want hi-cap in a fairly acceptable defensive caliber? Thats why God invented the 9mm. Willing to accept slight reduction in capacity for a really big hole? .45 in some double stack wonder pistol. Want to shoot the pistol design that God apparently whispered in (John) Moses’ (Browning) ear? .45 in a 1911. Want to shoot big game with pistol (revolver) cartridge? .44 or .41 MAG.
Back in the 80’s it seemed that every month there was a new be all end all pistol cartridge, and I’m grateful for that because it meant progressive Police Departments would turn in their barely fired .357’s and 9mm’s to get the newest thing and they were available at reasonable prices on the used market.
Having said all that nice pistol…but in order to simplify logistics I’m down to a handful of calibers. .45 ACP, 12 Gauge, and 5.56 for stuff to defend the homestead.
In my most anti-2A phase, I would have been baffled to see a rifle like that and unsure if the damn thing was legal for civvies, but I sure as hell wouldn’t have wanted freaking vomit! What kind of a stupid reaction is that?
Well when the gun wakes up it will bite them, don you know that?
At least they weren’t back home in NY when this happened… Handing it over to the police there could have gotten an innocent bystander shot.
It is a good thing they didn’t find a half empty pack of cigarettes in the glove box or a gray-market music CD in the center console.
We are most certainly doomed.
Illegal search. Where is the ACLU?
If he had been black he could have called Al Sharpton
Ok. S.F. means Slim Frame NOT short frame. There is a slight girth difference between the G20 and G20SF. As for ammo all that I have found is same as 45acp. Have even found some PPU 180gr JHP 50rd box for 23.81 a box. Just cause walmart and the one gun shop\pawn shop in town dont carry it doesn’t mean it isn’t out there. And a big plus for me and my 20SF is that with a simple barrel change I can shoot 40 S&w or 357 SIG. And there is an additional barrel made for the Glock 10mm chambered pistols snd that is 9X25 Dillion. Which is a full size 10 case necked down to 9MM. And I have seen that round with published velocities of 2000ft a sec with a 95gr bullet. To top this off 16rds of 10mm in a Glock 20 that my friends is a whole lot of fire power. And the G20SF is around 600 dollars and same for the G29SF.