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Springfield Armory XD-E
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The defining feature of the Springfield Armory XD-E is highlighted above, the DA/SA hammer-fired system that signals a return to an action often overshadowed by modern striker-fired defensive pistols. There was a time, back in the 1970s and ’80s, when giants strode the earth of the desert Southwest. At the time, semi-automatic handguns came mostly in two flavors: Single-action pistols—which were endorsed and carried by these giants—and pistols that were double-action on the first shot and single-action on subsequent shots, which were derided by the giants as “crunchentickers." |
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PHORTO
(12/26/2017)
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Beretta messed up with changing the safety to the slide-mounted decocking/safety lever. The original design defeated all the objections to that DA/SA pistol, because one could carry it cocked and locked. And believe me, the Beretta's SA trigger pull/break is superior - it is EXCELLENT. One can opt for the Taurus clone with the original design, but the QC just doesn't get there.
On single action, the Beretta places shots like a LASER - you point it, it shoots there. Not so much, the Taurus. AAMOF, from my experience with Colt-pattern 1911 pistols, they won't do that without enhancements. The Beretta does it OUT OF THE BOX.
Okay, that's my two cents. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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