Gun Review: Arsenal Firearms Strike One With Competition Upgrade

By Robert Farago

Arsenal sells the double-barreled AF2011-A1 .45. Strike one. A swing and a miss. The only thing worse than the A1’s utter lack of utility is its astronomical price. So when I encountered Arsenal’s Strike One striker-fired handgun at The Texas Firearms Festival, I was bit leery (despite Jeremy S’s four-star review). Well it does look odd . . .

The 9mm pistol looks like it was bitten by a radioactive spider in the GLOCK factory. Unlike everything else designed in Italy, there’s not a lot of style here: vertical cocking serrations on the front and back of a slide adorned (if that’s the right word) with a logo so subtle you can not blink and miss it. How great is that? If the Strike One was a car it would be a Fiat 500.

Though reasonably effective, the odd assortment of grip stippling on the Strike One’s big honking handle is about as aggressive as a Bichon Frise. And while some European football fans may appreciate the Arsenal logo at the bottom of the grip’s side — …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns