Guns you want to see made.

[funkychinaman]

I'm the one who suggested the modern pistol in 7.62 Tok, and I thought someone who wanted to enjoy cheap, powerful ammunition shouldn't have to settle for a gun designed in the thirties and built to communist-bloc standards.

Okay, I didn't think about what would happen when the supply of cheap surplus ammo would dry up, but it'll be fun while it lasts.

[funkychinaman]

I'd also like to see someone like RIA bring back the Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless. And maybe even update it to 9x19mm. It's a nice and elegant CC pistol, one that doesn't look all plastic-y.

[Yournamehere]

Naw, you know who should bring them back? Colt. They make some of the dumbest decisions with regard to their civilian sales and bringing back any of their old pistols would be a step in the right direction.

[Nyles]

Now that's an idea I can get behind. Great little guns, though the design can't really handle 9mm Luger.

[funkychinaman]

Colt seems to be solely interested in wringing as much cash as they can out of the M1911 design. It's just weird that with so many companies making M1911 clones, you'd think one of them, especially one of the smaller ones, would try to distinguish itself by bringing back the Pocket Hammerless.

Colt recognized the demand for a small CC pistol, but went with the new Colt Agent instead, which is just a Colt Officer with an aluminum alloy frame, so they managed to poop on the legacies of two of their historical pistols all at once. SIG even made their own version of the Colt Mustang in the P238. And yet it never occurred to anyone that some people might want a Pocket Hammerless? Throw in the old school allure of Dillinger and Patton, and it's a no-brainer.

The only problem I can foresee that any new Pocket Hammerless, by Colt or anyone else, would be pricey. There's a lot of competition when it comes to .32 and .380 CC pistols, and modern guns are just smaller, cheaper, and lighter. That's why I said RIA, they'd probably make a more affordable version.

[funkychinaman]

And if a Kel Tec PF-9 can handle 9mm and still weight half as much, I don't see why a Pocket Hammerless couldn't.

I'm not against making a few modern tweaks. It has been over a hundred years, after all.

[Nyles]

Yes, but the Kel-Tec is a locked breech design, whereas the Pocket Hammerless is straight blowback.