RUGER LCP vs. TAURUS COPY

[FenderTK421]

My LCP is atrocious... 3 times to Ruger and it still fails. Don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of Ruger, at least for their metal framed guns. I bought the TCP to replace it and couldn't be happier. It's everything the LCP was supposed to be and more. The Taurus absolutely wins the pocket pistol category hands down. I would sell the LCP, but I fear it is so unreliable that it should be destroyed. Instead it it is locked up with a butchered Krag that will never see the light of day.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Patent rights haven't had time to expire on the P3AT. But, I'm sure Ruger found a way around the patents

The P3AT wasn't patented at all. George Kelgren only holds one patent, and it's for the dual extractor system on the RFB.

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=7469496&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP

It'd be very difficult to patent an entire gun, especially in this day and age. Most are for specific parts or component systems within the gun.

 

[SwampWolf]

Thanks MachIVshooter: that's exactly what I suspected and is why I challenged anyone to name any patents awarded to Kel-Tec for the 3AT pistol-"patents" which Ruger has been accused of either violating or using their "legal team" to sneak around.

 

[jon_in_wv]

Why are we still proliferating this GARBAGE!?!?! KelTec had NO patents on the P3AT, NONE. You can't violate patents that don't exist. Besides that fact, imitation is the name of the game in the firearms business. Do you really think Taurus came up with the idea of making a DAO pistol with a plastic grip frame housing a metal receiver completely independent of Keltec? It just a coincidence huh. I also suppose non of you complainers owns a 1911 that doesn't say COLT on the side right? How about the Mauser action? Only on your Mauser right? I'm sure you have excuses why its ok for Taurus to sell Beretta copies, or S&W copies but not for Ruger. All I'm asking for is a little intellectual honestly folks. Its all been done to death, get over it.

 

[kokapelli]

Oh for crying out loud if it bothers you just don't buy the gun. It's like the people that refused to buy a P3AT because it's a KelTec but had no problem buying what is basically the same gun because it's a Ruger.