Comments on: New Rugers

By: Jon Stein

Jon Stein — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:10:43 +0000

Unfortunately, Ruger seems to be flailing around somewhat randomly to find both their identity and niche since the death of William Ruger. With the Glock Homeland Defender program, or via membership in GSSF, the SR9 has no real-world price advantage over Glock-and is playing catch-up not helped by recalls (and subsequently adopting a clone of the Glock trigger-and always a significant portion of their internal mechanical architecture).

While I don’t think that they’re bad guns per se, I’ve been totally underwhelmed by the P95, P345, and SR9.

Best, Jon

By: Rob Engh

Rob Engh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:22:14 +0000

so how many recalls will this one have?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:30:12 +0000

Caleb – True…

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:21:26 +0000

Hey, it could be worse. We could be talking about the “exciting new guns from Taurus”. At least when your Ruger SR9 throws a part, Ruger gets the gun fixed and sent back to you in under 6 months.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:27 +0000

One of the Worlds Shortest Books:

“Exciting Ruger Pistols”

Yawn

By: David

David — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:36:22 +0000

I LOVE the Ruger GP100 and the P90. I don’t care for 9mm too much so unless they’ve released something new in 357m or 45acp I’ll stay with the Rugers I’m used to. I actually like the looks of the all black little SR9 compact though. Maybe Ruger could give us a 357m auto. I have noticed on some of the newer SP101s they are dropping Alex Sturm, it just says “-Ruger-” now no more Sturm. Anyone know why they’re dropping his name from the brand?

By: Ogre

Ogre — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:24:19 +0000

Ruger Factory Recall for the SR9 Compact, in 3… 2…

By: P30man

P30man — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:43:40 +0000

jeeze the typos–time for bed… .

By: P30man

P30man — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:41:27 +0000

Tried to like the SR9. Looks good on paper but rhe one I held in the store had poor finish ib nechanicals. Trigger felt awful but more importantly the mag release was insanely stiff and not in a comfortable position. If I can change mags relatively well then thats a deal breaker.

By: gglass

gglass — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:55:44 +0000

I could not have said it better Todd. I was even excited about adding a companion to my LCP and LCR.

What really surprises me is that it does not seem like Ruger even tried to do a best in class as they have recently been known for. Example: The dimensions and weight are all larger than the M&P9c, and there are quite a few who feel the M&P compact is too large.

I would only add… Yawn…