Ruger Finally Builds A Glock!

By Bob Owens

No longer content to led pistols made in Smyrna, Georgia and Springfield, Massachusetts dominate negligent discharge reports in poorly-trained law enforcement agencies around the country, Prescott’s own Sturm, Ruger and Company have just released their own polymer-framed handgun with a “short take-up trigger” the Ruger American Pistol.

Emergency room doctors and ambulance-chasing lawyers around the country are already shopping for second and third vacation homes with the announcement of yet another plastic fantastic…

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All kidding aside, Ruger’s pistol has a number of features out of the gate that are are marked improvement over the aged Austrian design that has been more or less resting on it’s laurels for longer than most of its shooters have been alive. These include quality factory sights from Novak, as opposed to the plastic “dovetail protectors” (I wish I remember where I first read that to give credit) of Glocks, and a take-down procedure that doesn’t require the trigger to be pulled, much to the dismay of hand surgeons everywhere.

It will be at SHOT Show a little bit more than two weeks from now before I shoot Ruger’s “me too,” and I’ll give you my opinion on how it compares to the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms