Posted January 31, 2017 12:53 pm by Comments

By Jeremy Stafford

Fighting Pistols

Every year, all the major players (and most of the minor ones) in the firearms world descend on Las Vegas to display their latest wares. This year, there were several new fighting pistols worth looking at.

Here are our top 10 fighting pistols from SHOT Show 2017. The rankings are, of course, subjective. We hesitate to call them all “duty pistols” because more than just the pistol goes into that description. Things like ease of maintenance, armorer and parts supports, aftermarket support and field-use play a big part when determining if a pistol is truly duty ready. For the sake of this write-up, we’re looking at several pistols with no track record, so we’ll focus heavily on metrics that we’ve observed, such as accuracy, ergonomics and reliability.


Glock “M” Series—No, they weren’t on display. But yes, they were there — you just had to know who to ask! Here’s the deal with the M series of pistols that will probably end up being “Gen 5” after the contract is filled: no finger grooves, RTF-2 texture, built-in flare at the magwell, different barrel, ambidextrous slide stops and, most importantly, a redesigned trigger. I had only 30 seconds to look …Read the Rest

Source:: Guns and Ammo

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