New NAA .22 Auto?

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Seronac

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I recently sent this message to North American Arms President Sandy Chisolm:

"Mr Chisolm;

Considering the excellence and success of your .22LR revolvers and centerfire semiauto handgun models. Would NAA please make a .22 LR semiauto?

PLEASE HELP! There are no more small, good-looking, reliable, affordable, concealable .22 semiauto handguns out there. I've looked at the Baretta, and While it's the right size, it's ugly and too expensive. The Jennings J-22 is a handsome little gun at a very nice price, but lacks quality. The Browning BuckMark (which I have) is an excellent .22LR semi, with good looks, excellent reliability, and great accuracy, but too big for carrying around on a long, rough hike. Do you think you could shrink one of those down? Most any other .22 semiauto has some combination of the above problems. The solution would be a Guardian .22LR! I would buy one in a hurry!

Many thanks."

His reply was:

"Mr. Smith - Thanks for your interest and your suggestion. We may surprise you next year. - Sandy"

Does that sound like a New NAA .22 auto is in store? I think so! This should be very cool!
 
Taurus PT-22

With regard to the note above, I own a PT-22. It is a great little pistol with all the right stuff for combat (DAO, frame-mounted safety, tip-up barrel, 10-round cap, etc.). I bought mine used and it works great. I sometimes carry it when I can't carry something bigger-on the theory that it's better to have a .22 than a nothing. Yes, I do carry a spare mag.

I'm really not familiar with NAA, having never owned one of their products, but I do know that they are not submitting any of their guns for our stupid "safety testing" here in the PRK, so NAA guns (at least new ones) are not available here and NAA appears not to be interested in this market. I would interested in looking at their new .380 pistol, but it hasn't been cleared here either, so I guess that's out.

Anyway, you might want to look at the PT-22.
 
handgun "safety testing"

I just read and interesting article in the November/December 2001 American Handgunner, by Jeff Snyder (pg. 36) where he says that safety is not even an issue as far as the Second Amendment is concerned, because nowhere in the Constitution does it state that our government has to be our babysitter. People in the 18th century created their own safety and didn't expect the government to provide it for them; but people now days seems to expect the government to be their parent. Pitiful...

Quoting Benjamin Franklin:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Historial Review of Pennsylvania, 1759)

:cool:
 
OK. I'll buy one. (PT-22)

I need another little .22 caliber "plinker".
I think I can get a good deal at my gun shop on a nickel model. I'll buy it when I get back from vacation. Pretty inexpensive little pistol.

KR
 
How come the Taurus has to look so pimpish?

Complimenting seronac's statement, there was a Supreme Court decision a few years back on an environmental issue. The laws read that inforomed decisions had to be me. The decision made of stupid. Like safety, much of the government mandates are geared to providing insight, but not always directives that result in definitive action. In the case noted above, the defense was able to show that they did their homework and made an "informed decision"and that they satisfied the requirement even if the decision reached was not logical based on the information.
 
The Nanny State

Appreciate the comments regarding so-called "safety testing". From a rhetorical standpoint, it all makes good sense. The problem is one of practicality IN THAT now that "safety testing" is the law in California, guns which have not been safety tested are simply not available, because they cannot be legally sold here (at least if they are new).

Now, here's the laugh. This law was originally intended to cause a de facto ban on cheap guns, referred to by the uneducated as Saturday Night Specials, but used by poor folks to protect themselves. This ploy did not work, because the Davis derringers and several other SNS-type guns passed the safety tests and have been approved for sale. See "egg on legislator face" section.
 
How about an Iver Johnson TP-22? Cute little rascal... :)

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If NAA can accomodate .32 caliber in the nice little Gaurdian package, I imagine a .22 could be thinner and much lighter. I'd buy one (that is of course if I didnt live in Pinko Mass where NAA's are now on the "can't be sold" list.)

That Iver Johnsom looks like a nice little copy of the Walther TPS. Maybe Feg could start making them, they do a good job with thier ppk knock-offs.
 
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