The Sig Sauer P220 Pistol

By Ammoland

By Mike Searson

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Sig Sauer’s first pistol design was the now legendary P210, a single stack 9mm pistol that served the Swiss Army for years but was at a price point many times higher than its contemporaries.

In order to compete in the marketplace for a quality duty sidearm in 1975 SIG redesigned the pistol and came out with the Sig Sauer P220 Pistol.

Forty years later, the P220 still sets the standard by which other pistols chambered in 45 ACP are judged.

Superficially the P220 looks much like a typical Browning designed semiautomatic pistol. Operation is via a link less barrel, but without the locking lugs. Rather, the P220 relies upon an enlarged breech block to keep the slide and barrel together during the firing sequence.

The P220 is typically configured as a double action / single action pistol and makes use of a de-cocker to lower the hammer for safe carry and uses no external safeties. For law enforcement and military officers who are concerned about accidentally holstering a pistol with a cocked hammer there is a double action only …read more

Source:: AmmoLand