We need more light reading: 2021 gun wish list

[Lex Luthier]

Beretta 1301 Tactical.

I can normally afford one gun a year. If I can manage more than one, I'd like a J frame. Probably a 637. If I could find the factory bobbed "Wyatt Deep Cover" that'd be even cooler. I've needed a small gun for awhile. All the handguns I own right now are full size.

I've been carrying a circa 1980 Model 36 for 8 months now. Yes, you do need a short tube J frame or equivalent. Even the all-steel ones disappear from your notice after a while.

[Elwin]

A S&W Shield 2.0 with a manual safety that actually works. So the safety from the full size M&Ps that Smith already has and could add tomorrow. If I’m being really picky I want the 4” barrel version.

It’s a solution that my wife and at least one other family member would benefit from, and now I want one. It just needs to exist. Alternatively, a Shield EZ with a subcompact grip could accomplish the same thing.

[fatdog]

Glock 32 gen 5, so I have something worthy of my blue label coupon for 2021

[JCN]

Are you left handed?

I am until my right wrist heals up....

Currently playing with G19.5 and Dremel cut a notch in a G23 aftermarket slide so it works on the Gen5 frame with left handed controls.

[HeavyDuty]

Large frame Gen5s
.357 Gen5s
A rethink of the G30 and G36 range
I’m beginning to understand the desire for a G43 length G43x style magazine - maybe 8 round
Wider use of 3” barrels in the LCR and LCRx range
S&W 9mm and 45 ACP revolvers with 547 style extraction and no moon clips

[Totem Polar]

In lieu of a 6shot LCR, I’d take an AIWB holster for the Kimber k6s.

https://www.cooksholsters.com/patrio...-band-holster/

[rcbusmc24]

-Ruger to bring back the Wiley Clapp GP100's to regular production, I've got mine but they are just about perfect for many of the people I talk with looking to get into revolvers.

-Springfield Armory to make a 9mm RDS cut Full size 1911, Honestly just like the RMR equipped MC Operator they make now, I know it's a big ask for a reliable RDS 9mm 1911, but the heart wants what it wants.

-FN/ Browning High Powers back into production, RDS variants, Perhaps a rail, No mag safety, SFS system would be a cool feature as well. Personally I like to think that a well built modernized Hi Power could give a 2011 a run for the money.

-Beretta to make a 84FS sized gun in 9x 19, with dovetailed sights.

-S&W- No lock 3 in barreled model 66's would sell themselves, just make them already.

[Nephrology]

-Ruger to bring back the Wiley Clapp GP100's to regular production, I've got mine but they are just about perfect for many of the people I talk with looking to get into revolvers.

Amen - wish I had gotten one when they were more widely available!

My realistic wishlist: more dots on the glocks I already own.

[Duelist]

Cheap, readily available .22LR, 5.56 and 9mm, and/or primers. Lots of primers.

A 5.5” Ruger Flattop in .45 Colt, and about 200 pieces of brass, and a set of dies and some primers.

I could have a lot of fun with that for a long time.

[Rex G]

I have bigger financial fish to fry, in FY 2021 and FY 2022, than buying more firearms, and, especially, should avoid adding more long guns, as I already need to add another safe, to hold the ones we have, now, but, OK, I’ll play along, with a couple of things that I doubt will happen:

1. Gen5 Glocks WITHOUT the ambidextrous slide stop, because I am a lefty, and the “left-hand” part of the slide stop, on the right side of the weapon, gets annoyingly in my way, so, worse than useless. As a lefty, I want the right side of an auto-pistol to be slick, unless it is a 1911, in which case a thumb safety lever, for the left thumb is, of course, a good idea. I know, yes, one can grind-away the offending tab, but “perfection” would be the ability to opt for “ambidextrous parts deletion.”

2. Tikka T3x Canadian/Arctic Ranger, left-hand action. I have told myself, “Enough, already; no more rifles, in 2021/2022,” but, I will make an enthusiastic exception for a left-hand T3x Canadian/Arctic Ranger.