Springfield Armory Severs Ties with IFMA For Acting "Against Our Principles" - The Truth About Guns
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Either way, neither of those companies seemed to understand where, for decades, the money was going or what is was supporting.
Now, I also never owned one of their products prior to this information becoming available. The only innovative product I saw was the XD line, but I’ve never figured out if that was an HS design or a Springfield design.
HS design. Springfield took the already-on-the-market HS2000 - which had been out for a few years at that point - and made a deal to rebrand and sell at much higher volume.
The new Hellcat? Not a Springfield design either - the XD, XDM, and Hellcat are all rebadged HS firearms. Springfield might've had input on them, but they are engineered, produced, and sold world-wide (outside the US) under the HS Produkt banner.
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Springfield's only non-HS products are the Saint (and who knows who really makes that one) and their 1911's.
Springfield is just an importer that contracts others to design and build their shit. Nothing special about them, though some of their guns do incorporate nice features, or are good designs in their own right.
I just fondled the Hellcat Pro at my LGS the other day - trying to help my 84 year old grand dad find a new carry gun (at his request - he wants to move from revolvers to something with an easier trigger, and less snappy recoil) - it was an impressive, comfortable little gun. I've owned a bunch of XD's before - none since Springfrield / RRA shenanigans. The Hellcat might get me to re-evaluate that stance, especially since they tried making right and back tracked, but I think they'd still be doing the same shady shit if they hadn't been caught.