What kind of handgun do you think would sell well?

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Folks have said for years now that if Colt would bring back the Python it would sell like hotcakes. Apparently Colt doesn't believe them. At least in the sense that enough of them would sell to pay back upfront costs and make a profit for shareholders. That's what most gun manufacturers are looking at.....profit.

While folks always suggest something they themselves want, a few folks on a internet gun forum claiming they would buy something is not true market research, nor does it dictate what the general public wants. What the general public wants in a handgun, is something cheap and reliable. Build that and folks will flock to it. Ruger's little LCP is proof. Lately, it seems offering new calibers in old reliable platforms is a more sound idea than making a new off the wall platform that takes time for it to prove itself and the public to accept it.
 
C0untZer0 said:
I think a full-sized but very light weight .32 ACP could be targeted toward people with weakness in their hands or arthritis for home defense. A .32 ACP can be made of lightweight materials, and the longer barrel would produce slightly better terminal ballistics than the pocket pistols the caliber is normally chambered in.
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If it was made with a locked breech instead of blowback action, that could be something indeed.

Unfortunately, I don't think Americans as a whole like .32ACP. Look at the demise of the Taurus TCP732, yet the TCP380 and all of its brethren sell and sell and sell. Even if people resort to low recoiling .380 ammo (w/ the power of a hot .32 ammo by the way) because they dislike the recoil of standard .380.

As an owner of two .32ACP pocket guns, I would like to see a .32ACP about the size and weight of a Glock 19. But truthfully, if I'm old enough to not be able to handle 9mm in a gun that size, I'd want a double stack polymer .380 with a locked breech. Didn't Walther make a gun like that, the PK380? Or is that a single stack gun?
 
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Cooldill said:
Someone needs to make a modern automatic revolver, along the lines of the Webley-Fosbery, chambered in .357 magnum. 8-shot cylinder with moon clips as well. A 6-shot .45 ACP version could be developed as well.
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It's called a Mateba:

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An american full size DA revolver for under $300 would sell well.
 
That top one in the OP looks like a Kel-Tec prototype!

If the Federal Register were repealed, MAC-10's would be popular.

While I don't think it would sell well, a hand weapon with both lethal and non-lethal (or less lethal) options would be worth developing. A pistol with a Taser built in, something along that line. I'm sure DARPA is working on it.
 
.455_Hunter said:
I would like a small metal framed DA/SA designed around either the 5.45x18mm +P or a new rimless .25 acp "magnum" and 15 rd double stack mag using a heel release.
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I too would be interested in some sort of small caliber, high velocity rimless cartridge and a small pistol with high capacity to fire it. I would also be interested in a smaller, single-stack version for even more discreet carry. Polymer and striker fired would be okay by me, "micro-Glock," but if such a cartridge catches on, doubtless there will be pistols from various manufacturers, with different features and materials to choose from.

.22 WMR is nearly, not quite, the answer I'm looking for here. It is long and a rimfire, neither quality being ideal for the use in view.
 
Folks have said for years now that if Colt would bring back the Python it would sell like hotcakes. Apparently Colt doesn't believe them. At least in the sense that enough of them would sell to pay back upfront costs and make a profit for shareholders. That's what most gun manufacturers are looking at.....profit.
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Okay. Here's the deal. If Colt brings back the Shooting Master in .45 Colt (that's the New Service with target sights), I'll buy TWO of them. The rest of you guns only have to buy one apiece.
 
I still think .327 deserves another shake. Maybe a GP100 (or better yet, a security six) holding 7 rounds. I'd be happy with a 3" barrel, but a 4 or 6" for hunting and target shooting would be cool too.

I think a lever gun chambered in .327 would be the cat's pajamas. A 16-18" barrel holding 9 or 10 rounds (at a guess) would be good medicine for anyone wanting to take down something smaller than a black bear with less recoil.

I'd just be happy to see a cost effective .32 ammo on the shelves. I'd be a happy camper if they had 50 count boxes of plinking semi jacketed 100gr .327 at $17...not bulk quantities and available at a sporting goods store regularly.

Heck, if we're really wishing, it'd be nice to have all the .32 flavors kicking about on the shelves.

I dunno how well the 9mm lcr is doing. I know I love mine, but I'd like to see an SP101 sporting a 3" barrel in 9mm.
 
Hm. If we could make an all steel 5" single stack, single action pistol with a perfect trigger, a thumb and grip safety, phenomenal accuracy, perfect pointability, and perhaps a huge aftermarket. I bet that would really become America's pistol. Oh wait...
 
I'd like to see a Walther PPK/S in 9mm. I bet it would be a hot ticket. Also a Walther PPQc like the P99c with the PPQ grip style and SA trigger. Even a standard P99 AS trigger in a compact with the updated grip.
 
Fiv3r said:
I still think .327 deserves another shake. Maybe a GP100 (or better yet, a security six) holding 7 rounds. I'd be happy with a 3" barrel, but a 4 or 6" for hunting and target shooting would be cool too.
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Been done. Didn't sell. Got discontinued. The .327 is one of those cartridges destined for obscurity, sort of like the .41 Magnum. Nice little hot-rod .32, but that isn't what many folks want these days.
 
spazzymcgee said:
Hm. If we could make an all steel 5" single stack, single action pistol with a perfect trigger, a thumb and grip safety, phenomenal accuracy, perfect pointability, and perhaps a huge aftermarket. I bet that would really become America's pistol. Oh wait...
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That sounds really cool. A small frame revolver firing medium cartridges would be handy sometimes when the sort of thing you describe is too big to carry. Give it a short barrel for easy concealment, and let's see, what shall we call it? A short-nose? I'd be all over a setup like that. Oh, wait...
 
Sergei Mosin said:
Been done. Didn't sell. Got discontinued. The .327 is one of those cartridges destined for obscurity, sort of like the .41 Magnum. Nice little hot-rod .32, but that isn't what many folks want these days.
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I wonder how the LCR and SP101's in .327 are selling for Ruger, actually. I too thought the .327 was absolutely dead.

but Ruger released new guns for it in the last year. Maybe the two prong approach of a light SD LCR and the more "kit gun" 4.2" SP101 is the marketing strategy that finally turns some heads.

Actually, I bought a new SP101 in .327 for the purposes of a kit gun/trail defense, and I liked it so much that if I hadn't stumbled into the criminally underappreciated 9mm LCR, I probably would have picked up a .327 LCR to go with it. The little .32 family really won me over.

I've only seen .327 in stock at one local sporting good store that caters more to the shooting crowd. Even at that, it was only 20 round boxes at $30. Every other .32 was available at least.

I dunno if .327 is going to end up like the .41 magnum. I have never actually seen .41 magnum on the shelf. I think it might be more like .44 special, only instead of the magnum round being more popular the .327 is drown out by the weaker cartridges of .32.

Still, it's a fun little round. A .327 makes for a great trail defense gun if you aren't trying to hunt bear with it. I keep a pocketful of .32 S&W wadcutters as well. It would make for a fine harvesting gun without blasting a squirell apart like a .38 might.
 
Someone could make an alloy-framed 32 H&R magnum snubby significantly smaller and lighter than any of the ones based on 38 special. That would be a nice CC handgun for those who prefer revolvers but want something small and light with mild recoil.
 
This is on my list:

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Sacrilege, I know, but I keep hoping for a modern, centerfire LeMat. Just gotta rifle a .45LC barrel in place of the grapeshot tube... :)
 
C0untZer0 said:
I think a full-sized but very light weight .32 ACP could be targeted toward people with weakness in their hands or arthritis for home defense. A .32 ACP can be made of lightweight materials, and the longer barrel would produce slightly better terminal ballistics than the pocket pistols the caliber is normally chambered in.
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To help with effectiveness of the caliber, whatever company that sells them should also produce quality spoon-nosed ammunition to prompt quick tumbling and a bigger wound channel.
 
A single-shot break open pistol in .22,,,

A single-shot break open pistol in .22,,,
That isn't butt-ugly like the Rossi Matched Pair. :p

And they need to change the marketing,,,
Sell them singly or as a matching cased set of two.

Modern dueling pistols, so to speak.

I was intrigued by the Rossi,,,
Until I finally got to hold/shoot one,,,
Clunky, heavy, and not fun to shoot at all.

C'mon now,,,
One of our members made one in his garage in a weekend.

This is something that North American Arms could easily make,,,
Give them a sleek frame style and at least a 6" barrel,,,
Sell them as a pair in a nice wooden box.

If they could be made and sold for $350 a pair,,,
The guns would sell like hotcakes at Christmas time.

Aarond

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How about a Hi-Power with a polymer frame? Hopefully, this might reduce the initial cost of a new Hi-Power to the consumer. I would buy one.
 
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