Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Smith & Wesson's Performance Center produces the top-of-the-line hand-fitted competition version knowns as the PC 1911. While most 1911s run around 38 to 39 ounces (1,100 to 1,100 g), the PC 1911 is heavier, at approximately 41 ounces (1,200 g).
The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911, and Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the improved M1911A1 model which entered service in 1926. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam War era. [10]
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...
Both Ruger and Smith & Wesson designs failed the trial perimeters, resulting in Beretta winning again. [ 21 ] In the 2000s, a new joint service handgun was started, the Joint Combat Pistol , which was the result of a merger of two earlier programs: the U.S. Army's Future Handgun System [ 22 ] and United States Special Operations Command 's SOF ...
Smith & Wesson M&P: Smith & Wesson: FN 5.7×28mm 9×19mm Parabellum 10mm Auto.22 LR.22 WMR.30 Super Carry.357 SIG.380 ACP.40 S&W.45 ACP United States: 2005 Smith & Wesson Model 22: Smith & Wesson.45 ACP.45 Auto Rim.45 GAP United States: 1917 Smith & Wesson Model 25: Smith & Wesson.45 ACP.45 Colt United States: 1955 Smith & Wesson Model 625 ...
In 1949, Smith & Wesson began development of the Model 39 chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum and it entered the market in 1955. [2] It was the first U.S. designed double action (DA) semi-automatic pistol and was designed to replace the venerable M1911A1. The 1911 was still extremely popular with law enforcement, military, and civilian use, but ...
The Smith & Wesson Model 59 is a double-action pistol produced from 1971 to 1982. It was developed by Smith & Wesson from the earlier Smith & Wesson Model 39 by adapting a 14-round capacity stagger-stack magazine.
Smith & Wesson (S&W) began experiments with .45 ACP-firing pistols in 1984, and produced their first one, the Model 645, in 1985. Public demand led to the development of this series. The series is a .45 ACP version of their 9mm Parabellum weapons. They are normally double-action weapons, or what Smith & Wesson refers to as a traditional double ...