EXCLUSIVE: Detonics Defense & STI Form Strategic Partnership

By Bob Owens

For more than 20 years, STI has built a reputation for building incredibly precise and durable competition pistols and parts, highlighted by the very successful modular-frame 2011 series of pistols used by elite competition shooters. STI President & CEO Greg Mooney is very proud of the reputation that STI has achieved, but isn’t content to rest on a pile of trophies.

For more than 28 years, Bruce Siddle has been focused on combat human factors, focusing on how the human body reacts under high stress, in order to fine-tune gun designs to the way people fight, instead of forcing people to adapt to the quirks of handgun designers. He has built a “skunkworks” research and development shop at Detonics Defense, leading to the incredibly innovative MTX/STX pistol designs. Detonics owns overlapping patents on anthropometric modular grips, the first modular striker assembly system, and research demonstrating that their platform has significantly less recoil than traditional composite striker-fired systems.

The two companies are now joining forces to mesh the precision engineering, gunsmithing, and production skills of STI with the human-factors-driven design work of Detonics, in hopes of leapfrogging over the rest of the industry with the next generation of STI …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms