Friday, June 4, 2010

Friday Gun Pr0n #166

Today's Gun Pic is one of the hundreds of beautiful guns I had the pleasure of coonfingering holding at the NRA Annual Meeting last month:

Sig P220

That's a SigSauer P220 X-Six,Sig's MasterShop rework of the already-fantastic P220 .45 ACP. It's single-action only, six inch barreled semi-auto with contoured wood grips and adjustable competition sights. And it has a trigger pull that can only have been finished by angels - this is one of the smoothest single action triggers I've ever had the pleasure of pulling.

It's really a shame it's not "safe" enough for sale in Massachusetts... (hate rage hate)

That is all.

6 comments:

Lissa said...

I showed Mike. He went "oooo" :)

Jewish Marksman said...

Do you mean double-action only?

Jay G said...

It's definitely not double action only.

I *thought* it was SA only, but it might be DA/SA. All I know is that the SA break was about the smoothest I've ever fired...

Weer'd Beard said...

I believe the 220 with the thumb safety is SAO.

Also I don't see why Sig can't drill a witness hole in the chamber hood and submit it for Mass testing.

Of course you know all the reasons why they might not want to do that...which of course is the end goal of Massachusetts' "Safety Testing". I don't know of a single gun in production today, from high-end Sig-Sauers, and Dan Wessons, to Cheap potmetal Cobra Arms and Hi-Points that aren't as safe as anything else on the market.

The Attorney General knows that too. They also know that gun makers sell guns to earn their living, and there is certainly a cost-benefit analysis to be made in paying no small sum to enter just a single line of guns into the Mass market.

Especially when the Mass market is limeted by people who have to expend no small sum and time to acquire a Mass LTC.

Again, their goal is NOT safety, its eliminating gun owners from the equation entirely.

First they thin the heard, then they attempt to crush any stragglers.

Jewish Marksman said...

I think a gun manufacturer should consider a challenge to the MA list if McDonald comes down good for us.

The manufacturer would likely have standing on behalf of its customers in MA. If a non-MA approved gun is otherwise in "common use" throughout the republic, then the argument would be the MA restrictions violate Heller/McDonald. Of course, MA would argue they don't ban handguns, just *some* handguns that aren't up to (their) snuff.

Weer'd Beard said...

Marksman:
http://leftcoastconservative.blogspot.com/2009/05/lawsuit-challenges-california-doj.html

Already there. Alan Gura is the lead attorney. He's simply waiting for McDonald to move forward with the case. Also California's law is LESS restrictive than the Mass one, so if Cali's law falls on 2nd Amendment grounds, the Mass law will fall.

Also if I read the law correctly, our mandatory safety lock law will immediately evaporate as soon as the McDonald decision is read, but I'm not a lawyer, so don't take my advice!