No, that’s not a SIG P238. But you’d be forgiven for confusing the new Springfield Armory 911 .380 ACP pistol for a familiar product of New Hampshire rather than a new one from Illinois. The new pocket pistol packs 6+1 rounds with a flush-fit magazine or an extra one with the extended mag. Springfield’s offering four models, two base models with an MSRP of $599 and two equipped with Viridian lasers for $799. Here’s their press release:
GENESEO, ILL. (01/01/18) – With its new .380 ACP pistol, Springfield Armory’s 911 is well-suited for comfort, size and convenience – making it the perfect pistol for your EVERY day carry.
Optimizing the frame-to-slide-to-trigger guard relationship creates handling characteristics unique among small pistols of its kind. Many pocket guns can be hard to handle and unpleasant to shoot, discouraging practice at the range and time on the hip. However, the 911 .380 both shoots and feels like a full-size firearm, encouraging both practice and daily carry in the most concealable firearm that Springfield currently offers. It’s small frame shooting with the familiarity of a 1911.
The 911 .380 carries a crisp, short-reset 5-pound trigger with the industry’s only G10 Trigger shoe produced by Hogue®, a differentiating and satisfying feature in such a small pistol. This quick, positive trigger squeezes off repeat rounds with reassuring precision, a key factor in surviving defensive situations. A loaded chamber indicator and hammer provide peace of mind with both visual and tactile cues allowing for various modes of carry.
Designed for life-saving defensive use at close range, the 911 features an ambidextrous safety and is perfectly matched with an Ameriglo® Pro-Glo™ green tritium front sight inside a yellow luminescent circle, and a tactical rack U-notch rear sight with green tritium inside of white luminescent circles. Sighting is designed to provide fast target acquisition to gain the edge in a defensive encounter. The low-profile design ensures a snag-free draw when milliseconds count.
To keep the gun invisible until needed, the frame measures 5.5 inches long and less than 4 inches high, with a smooth profile that’s undetectable under clothing. Springfield’s Octo-Grip™ texturing on the mainspring housing and front strap allows for a very secure grip without tearing up your clothes while carrying concealed. Additionally, the thin-line grips and mainspring housing are made of G10 by Hogue®.
Should need arise, the 2.7-inch precision broached barrel gives this small gun solid accuracy at greater than confrontation distance. A full-length guide rod and flat wire spring enhance control and soften recoil. A flush 6-round and 7-round extended magazine provides great capacity in such a small platform. Two configurations of the 911 .380 are also offered with integrated green Viridian® laser grips, making target acquisition all but effortless.
The new 911 is crafted of 7075 T6 anodized hard-coat aluminum, the same material used in combat-ready firearms like Springfield’s renowned SAINT AR-15 rifles and pistols. A brushed-satin, matte-finish stainless steel or black Nitride slide completes the picture. The new Springfield Armory 911 is an ideal carry pistol or backup gun, with the features, quickness and reliability to save lives. When the Police are minutes away and the threat is seconds away….
9-1-1…When you have to be your own first responder.
“With such great advances made in modern defense ammunition, the .380 has become a seriously viable defensive platform ,” says Springfield Armory CEO Dennis Reese, “and our customers deserve a pistol that makes the most of it. Once you try it, you’ll be as convinced as we are that this is the best .380 pistol choice available.”
MSRP: $599.
Now available in four configurations:
PG9109 .380 ACP BLACK MSRP $599.00
PG9109S .380 ACP STAINLESS MSRP $599.00
PG9109VG .380 ACP BLACK, GREEN VIRIDIAN® LASER MSRP $789.00
PG9109SVG .380 ACP STAINLESS, GREEN VIRIDIAN® LASER MSRP $789.00
Too late. Already did.
Why is everyone keep reinventing the Colt Mustang? Yes, this has features the others lack (night sights, better grips and front strap grip surfaces, two mags instead of one), and it is almost $100 less than a SIG P238, $300 less than the Kimber Micro, but it is still a Mustang and it is still .380. I’d rather have a 9mm EXP–if I could afford one.
I hope they drown in these, it would serve the FUDDS right! After that crap they pulled last year I wouldn’t touch one.
That cougar is big enough to take down more than an average count of 1 deer or elk a week. Let’s see that means 8 a month x 12 =96 deer /elk a year saved. Even half that saved sounds good. It’s also a known fact that the cougars and wolves kills just because they can, and not just for food. At least the cats know how to do the killing faster by way of neck attack. I do not like either animal. I believe theires enough ways for wildlife to balance out without them.I do not hunt.
Sorry, I don’t buy Springfield.
I bought a Springfield 6.5. I paid $1650 plus tax. Go shopping do not pay MSRP.
I do not find that all that high of a price.
Shooting my 1st 25 in a round of skeet.
Shooting in my 1st major IDPA match. (Illinois State).
Getting my dad to the range. He’s a golfer, but I bought him 20 gauge Mossberg 500 for home defense.
“Death and guns are not allowed.”
What about just guns, or just death?
Leave it to CA to screw up any way for people to protect themselves! If it involves a gun it’s bad, never mind the idiot behind the gun!!! Stupid is as stupid does!
Assemblyman Kevin McCarty (not pictured). I think the guy in the photo is Rep Kevin McCarthy of US House. Funny that both from California.
“Mustang” has already been used lol.
As Thomas Sowell said: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
We need to invoke a system where there are consequences for the elite who make those decisions and intentionally violate the Constitution and laws. Being voted out of office or even impeachment is not a deterrent.
Public hanging comes to mind…….
Happy New Year.
Further into the pit of insanity they go.
This is the same as having three cars, one white, one black and one bright red going down the highway at the same speed, witch one do you think the cop is going to pull over first?
Wrong it’s the Mexican!
For sale
One used arms manufacturer in need of PR makeover. Products are decent but lack direction in some cases. Willing to relocate. Management motivated.
Until we see that ad S.A. and RRA can pound it.
This proves that the people who live in Commiefornia are indeed like a bowl of cereal – “what ain’t fruits and nuts is flakes.”. They are so, so stupid. And for that reason, I will never, never set foot in Commiefornia or any other state on the Left Coast.
“Prevents from choosing to allow”
Only a Sith could speak in such absolutes.
Mercysdad.com
I haven’t seen a rip off like that since Ruger ripped off the Kel Tec P3AT
Happy New Year to everyone at TTAG!
I’ve got an older Grendel .22 mag pistol that holds 30 rounds. It’s a real fire breather. Hardly any recoil. It’s reall loud and lots of fun to shoot. Just picky about ammo.
I’d get a Keltec 30round pistol for fun but not for defense. I’d get the CMR too but not what they sell for…personally wouldn’t go below a 38 for carry.
Yes, a .22 mag FROM A RI FLE is knocking on the door of a 9 mm FROM A HANDGUN. From a handgun it’s probably more like knocking on the door of a .380. But if you’re recoil sensitive it beats a pointy stick in the eye.
And you didn’t mention the great fireball and noise, when fired from a short barreled revolver.
The only thing I would offer is that they can be pretty darn accurate.
A buddy of mine smithed an old .22 LR gallery pump into mag. That thing is a 50-100 yard laser. 2 inch pipes at both distances – rack, fire, ring the bell. It almost got boring it was so easy to shoot. Blew through a 500 of Velocitor, laughing my ass off
I do wish there were more competitors in the pistol space in this caliber.
Springfield can announce blowjobs and I might line up around the block with everybody else, but I will not give them one cent.
Five rounds of 22 magnum from a North American Arms revolver will convince any attacker to stop and go away to bleed out.
I have a heritage single action only 22 lr/mag. It’s a blast to shoot with the mag, more accurate then LR and a great way to warm up on range days. If someone was recoil or practice I would say get a 22 mag wheel gun (not single action of course) for home defense because; guns and ammo are cheaper, it generally has more rounds then center Fire, isn’t intimidating to shoot but offers decent bark and penetration. * a word of caution in my experience 22 mag out of less then a 3in barrel tends to keyhole and also loses a lot of its ballistic punch.
*Recoil or practice adverse
Noun: Arsenal
a : an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment The city is home to a federal arsenal.
b : a collection of weapons
I would say 3 or more firearms with 3 or more magazines for each?
100 + firearms
Instructor Greg Ellifritz has compiled stats on thousands of shootings via police reps. and ME reps. The major center fire pistol calibers 9mm, .40SW, and .45ACP have about a 15% failure to incapacitate, whereas .22LR has about a 31% failure to incapacitate. So .22LR is much worse, but it’s not super bad.
Out of a short barreled pistol .22WMR is only slightly faster than .22LR. A long barrel pistol or rifle is much better for WMR.
I’ve had more stove-pipes out of my XD 9mm than I’ve had failure to ignite out of the thousands of .22LR I’ve shot. Of course, the recoil spring on the XD is too darned stiff and I only recently found a fix (wolffgunsprings). To be fair, at least with a stove-pipe you get one round off.
My newer CZ-75B has been nearly flawless, except I had a bad failure to feed just last week.
Gonna carry two, make them the same!
Certainly makes short work of choosing spare magazines!
And you can’t make the mistake of choosing the wrong one in a dire situation!
Ask me how I know!
No, not really, but it just makes sense to me.
What’s sad is that most street police officers would like to see trained & armed law-abiding citizens. They are sick & tired of seeing people robbed & shot down like dogs, just because they could protect themselves from criminals who ignore the laws and are armed (imagine that about criminals). Police Chiefs (politicians in a uniform) and city Mayors can afford to oppose lawfully armed citizens. They are either armed themselves or have a protection detail from the local police department. Although I’m a retired fed. LEO & can ignore these archaic laws (they don’t apply to us), I continue to be concerned about the grossly biased opinions of elected officials that are based on voodoo research. My research (data collected over a 10-year period of time), indicates that there are more than 9,000 people alive every year (conservative figure, because of absence of readily available data) because of the lawful use of a firearm to protect oneself, another, or both. Keeping firearms away from law abiding people only makes it easier for criminals to harm these people. When comparing Rochester, NY with Chattanooga, TN (same demographics & SES), although the city of Rochester has 20k more residents, the City of Rochester has more than 2 times the gun related homicides as Chattanooga.
The difference in laws include stand your ground, castle doctrine, and right to have a firearm (TN) verses retreat doctrine, no right to have a firearm, and restricted when a person does own a firearm (NY). A presentation at a professional conference in Atlanta (ASC) and New Orleans (ACJS), both primary professional organizations in the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice, yielded much interest, but those in control of the journals would never allow such information to be provided through their journals. However, these same individuals would allow junk science to influence laws and public opinion. This is one great reason why things are messed-up.
By the way, I never advocate that there are not problems with people having firearms. A person has to keep their firearm safe from unauthorized individuals from having possession of their firearms (e.g., children and felons), which is one of the major problems with firearms in general. A TN State Trooper did not have his service weapon secured and his granddaughter got possession of it and when showing it to her child female friend, she accidentally shot and killed herself. These are preventable accidents. It is more important to make certain that people are securing their weapons and have heavy sanctions in place when they don’t do so (there are many laws that already do this) than to strip honest people of lawful possession of their firearm. In other words, making the sheep vulnerable to the wolf is no more humane than allowing people to possess firearms without encumbering them with the needed responsibility with sanctions.
Also, although retired, every year I must undergo retraining. I enjoy this training for 2 major reasons. First, I learn of any changes in the laws, if any, and problems that may arise in some US states (retired/active LEOs can carry firearms in every state and U.S. Territory with only 2 restrictions – States can dictate what gov’t property that we cannot carry armed & a private citizen can prohibit the possession of a firearm on their property). Two, I’m able to make certain that I’m able to handle my firearm with safety and accuracy. Carrying a firearm comes with a great amount of responsibility, whether a LEO or private citizen (keep in mind that after retirement, we are a private citizen, but with possible dangers secondary to serving the public).
With this being said, I would like to see, at a minimum, private citizen undergoing firearms training (4 hours of class (law, safe handling of their firearm, use of firearm when there is a threat to life or limb (laws), etc.) & 4 hours of range (minimum score required – 70% – and safety in handling a firearm) before they become eligible to possess a permit to carry a firearm. After all, there is an 8-hour training requirement before a person can get a hunting license, but many states require no training whatsoever for a person who can carry a firearm concealed. To me, this is setting up a law-abiding citizen to make a mistake and then give anti-gun politicians a reason to cause greater restrictions though new laws. Also, my opinion is that this training for private citizens should be required at least in 3-year intervals. Again, this is my opinion & should not be given any more weight than any other opinion, but should be governed by a reasonable person test.
As far as states, such as NY, CA, IL, and NJ, they need to get on board with the rest of the United States. Also, to help this along, research should be scrutinized more closely before legislators attempt to throw the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution under a train. And the U.S. Courts need to abide more strictly to the Law of the Land (U.S. Supreme Court cases). This isn’t being done, to date.
Should read “Man smart enough not to leave his weapons in the car…”
Get the populace sedated, slowly disarm them, and put them on a boxcar to happy camp
But thank goodness the “Don’t point the laser at anyone you don’t intend to lase” sticker is still on the pistol. To remind you of Rule 3 of Buzz Lightyear’s Four Rules of Laser Safety.
I think this was probably a lunatic who sought revenge against the cops for maltreatment at the hands of the cops. And, to be this extreme, he must have been mightily mishandled by them perhaps over years.
Let me tell you a short story. I live in an upscale neighborhood of executive homes surrounded by, well, every convenience you might imagine…gyms, walking trails, residential tennis courts, etc. And, there’s a nearby elementary school.
One day on my way to work I drove by the elementary school and witnessed an assault on a teenager who, I learned later, was a problem child. He’d stolen a bicycle and was apprehended in the parking lot of the then holiday-closed elementary school. As one cop put the bike in the truck of the cruiser the other chocked him out, despite the fact that he wasn’t resisting at all the entire duration of the encounter…because I witnessed the whole thing.
And, that’s how you train a young person to want to set up ambushes to kill cops.
There are always two sides to a story like this one about an ambush of cops. Sadly, most of us never hear the shooter’s side because…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-gunman-threatened-fire-sheriff-shooting-deputies-n833851
Just a thought… If you train always with zero distractions… how does that translate into a situation in real life when you can’t help but have plenty of distractions? I think one needs to train to function in SPITE of distractions.
If you are training ONLY for target shooting perfection, well I suppose this advice is good… but if you are training to defend yourself and others, it might be self defeating. You WILL have all kinds of distractions in that case, and you’d better be prepared to deal with them.
Great – another pistol that “woke” people of the gun won’t buy because we won’t forget what these people tried to do.
i have been thinking about a 34…
No.
Fucking No.
Conscription is slavery.
There is a metaphor in there somewhere.
Is the SA 911 California compliant?