Taurus designed pistols?

[Shweboner]

I know Taurus copies their revolvers from S&W and they use Beretta designs for some of their autos.

But what about autos like the 24/7 or PT-940, or the Millenium series?
Are they Taurus-designed? They dont look familiar to me as being copies.

Anybody know?

 

[modifiedbrowning]

I always thought that the PT-940 and PT-945 were their Beretta copies modified to use the Sig barrel hood locking system. They look like an enclosed slide Beretta to me(those two specific pistols that is).

 

[Black Snowman]

AFAIK everything that's come out of them in recent years have been home grown. They've grown into a real firearms company and no longer a liscenced manufacturer of other companies products and haven't been for quite some time.

They now have their own R&D programs and develop their own firearms. Until they got a flood of hate mail they even joined the SmartGun development program for a short while. I'm one of the letter writers that helped them change their mind. I've since bought one of their revolvers

 

[Alan Fud]

I like this ...

... does it come WITHOUT the gold accent and the pearl grips?

 

[PCRCCW]

The PT9** series guns were an evolution of what Taurus learned from Beretta, Sig and their own design thrown in. I think its one of the slickest guns made.
The one pictured is the 945.......the 940/957/911 are all double stacks and have a straight grip/back strap. The single stack 45 is curved.......

Shoot well.