Spelling NAZI to the rescue!Originally Posted by Robinson
Spelling NAZI to the rescue!
Seems like Colt stopped being a design firm about the time Browning came along. All the self loading products they are known for are contracted designs, more or less.
But I guess the same thing happened to HK, so maybe that's just the way things go for innovative companies over time as their inventive founders retire.
Wasn't the All-American 2000 originally designed by Reed Knight and handed off to Colt?Colt's last really New Offering was the All-American 2000, and I think we can all see the lesson they chose to take from that experience.
They also whipped up an entrant for the Offensive Handgun Weapon System that ultimately became the MK23. I suppose you could argue that it was a 'new design', though it appears they took the frame from a 1911, the trigger from the Double Eagle, and the locking system from the AA2000. It, um, didn't win.
Last edited by JSGlock34; 05-29-2016 at 03:15 PM.
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
Yes, Knight and Stoner.
It was a new design that had mostly been bought (traded into, IIRC) from outside the company and then finished up in-house. I wonder if Colt has the engineering and production resources to do a new pistol from the ground-up right now?
FWIW, there was one of the Offensive Handgun prototypes in the RIA cases at the NRAAM last weekend, but I'll be damned if I can find the pics I snapped.
It may not have won, but it certainly was Offensive.Wasn't the All-American 2000 originally designed by Reed Knight and handed off to Colt?
They also whipped up an entrant for the Offensive Handgun Weapon System that ultimately became the MK23. I suppose you could argue that it was a 'new design', though it appears they took the frame from a 1911, the trigger from the Double Eagle, and the locking system from the AA2000. It, um, didn't win.
Yep, weird and junky.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/col...pistol-at-ria/
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There's also the forgotten Colt SSP, which is best known as a historical footnote from the XM9 trials...
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
I like it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was mostly a Star P30.
A hint at why that handgun might look familiar can be found here...
TAMARA!!! Y'all drifted the hell out of my thread with that All-American 2000 post. Of course the thread is cooler now...
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