Over the past year or so, Springfield Armory has taken the concepts of economies of scale to new heights. Pistols in the Ronin family and the new SA-35 Hi-Power have proven to the market you can make a rock-solid pistol at a price friendly to most everyone. The latest entry in this race to provide top-notch firearms at affordable price points is the anchor of a new family of 1911 pistols — the Garrison. It’s a basic 1911 design with modern refinements to make it reliable with defensive ammo, accurate and comfortable to carry and shoot.
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Thank you Henry Ford. He made cars affordable and apparently firearms also. I particularly like the paragraph on field stripping. I have a .45 that took me over 3 weeks to figure out how to put it back together because I could not figure how to reverse the tear down instructions.