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It's red because at the same time that Springfield was selling the P9 they were also offering a colored polymer type coating for guns.
There was a big write-up in The American Handgunner about it. They pictured Springfield guns in all types and combinations of colors. One picture was a candy apple red 1911 in a basket of red apples, a red, white, and gold 1911, and various OD Green guns. As I recall, one customer had had an AK-47 coated with shocking pink. He used the AK as a home defense gun and was prepared for some lawyer to try holding it up to a jury and claim it was some horrible "assault weapon". For a short time until the original Springfield went bust, you saw some strangely colored Springfield guns. People always want something "different" to make their gun exclusively "theirs". |
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Quoted: It's red because at the same time that Springfield was selling the P9 they were also offering a colored polymer type coating for guns. There was a big write-up in The American Handgunner about it. They pictured Springfield guns in all types and combinations of colors. One picture was a candy apple red 1911 in a basket of red apples, a red, white, and gold 1911, and various OD Green guns. As I recall, one customer had had an AK-47 coated with shocking pink. He used the AK as a home defense gun and was prepared for some lawyer to try holding it up to a jury and claim it was some horrible "assault weapon". For a short time until the original Springfield went bust, you saw some strangely colored Springfield guns. People always want something "different" to make their gun exclusively "theirs". Hmm... I was unaware of that. I had walked past that exact gun in the display case a few months ago, and saw the tag that said something to the effect of "RARE FACTORY FINISH!!!!" I just about rolled over laughing in the aisle, because I thought it was just Duracoat or something. |
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Crazy, I have this CD. Didn't think many people were fans. |