I stopped by the local fun shop today and saw a few used Colt All American 2000s in the case. Never heard of them, but one of them caught my eye. It was marked 1st Edition and had an alloy frame and wood grips. It looks like the barrel rotates a small amount and the trigger moves straight back like a 1911, only it moves WAY back. Now I had never seen or heard of these pistols before. What can you folks tell me about them? Anything special about them? Any reason I should get serious about this one at $699?
Colt All American 2000 - Tell me about it
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Colts failed attempt to come up with something to compete with Glock and bail the company out of debt.
It didn't.
It was only sold for a short time, and was a marketing failure, complete with a recall to fix a trigger that allowed the gun to fire at odd & undesirable times!
Unless you are a die-hard Colt collector who just has to have one of everything they ever made, I would pass.
Especially for $700 bucks!!!
They sell for about half that on the on-line gun auctions, if they sell at all.
This one brought $314.50:
http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=10001650&oh=216543
This one brought $251.00!
http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=9903740&oh=216543
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It didn't.
It was only sold for a short time, and was a marketing failure, complete with a recall to fix a trigger that allowed the gun to fire at odd & undesirable times!
Unless you are a die-hard Colt collector who just has to have one of everything they ever made, I would pass.
Especially for $700 bucks!!!
They sell for about half that on the on-line gun auctions, if they sell at all.
This one brought $314.50:
http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=10001650&oh=216543
This one brought $251.00!
http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=9903740&oh=216543
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I seen one in a commemorative display box at the local fun store for the tune of 900 dollars! I thought it was the ugliest pistol ever, even uglier than a Glock! I don't even know anything about the workings of the pistol, but mans is it an ugly gun.
KodiakBeer
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I managed a small gun store in the 90's when these came out. There were numerous recalls and issues. We stopped selling them because they were essentially, junk.
Rare? Yeah, I guess so - because word got out and retailers refused to carry them and buyers stopped buying them.
Rare? Yeah, I guess so - because word got out and retailers refused to carry them and buyers stopped buying them.
The Lone Haranguer
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It had some features that were fairly unique for the time, e.g., polymer frame, DAO trigger, rotating barrel lockup. But, by all accounts, they didn't work together.
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...and Reed Knight...
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It might have if Colt hadn't have "Improved" the design when they got the rights to it.
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