From the Guns.com Vault: Deals on the Sig Sauer P229 (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

The Sig Sauer P229 has been around for 25 years and is now considered a classic– of which we have several in stock in both new and Certified used condition. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)
The double-stack Sig Sauer P229 built on the company’s “Classic Line” of pistols and has proven to be a crowd pleaser ever since it was introduced. First introduced in 1994, the P229 was a more compact design when compared to Sig’s full-sized P226, sporting a 3.9-inch barrel in lieu of the larger pistol’s 4.4-inch pipe.
While the half-inch doesn’t sound like much, the gun also shrank in height and lost a few ounces, providing an all-metal hammer-fired gun offered in a range of calibers to include 9mm, .40S&W and .357 SIG that was a hair smaller — though slightly heavier — than the striker-fired polymer-framed Glock 19.
The P229, far right, is a more compact design than its P220 and P226 brothers. Here a 229 is compared with a Walther P-38/P4, Glock 19X, and Browning Hi-Power (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
The P229 was soon a hit with law enforcement. By 2004, it had been adopted by the U.S. Coast Guard as their standard sidearm for boarding and security duties after a testing

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