A name for XD, Glock, M&P style guns...

[Guest HunterH]

ok, So I asked Eddie what, if any, general designation for this group of guns would be. We could not come up with an answer. (and if Eddie doesn't know, then there is not one that exists:)). So my question is: what would you call this class of handgun? the polymer, stiker type, DAO, with no (or minimal) external safeties, etc. Basically the design first made famous by Glock that has now become one of the most popular class or style of defensive firearm. An example of other class of gun would be the 1911 style family of guns, etc. In that there are many type and brands, but the formula is basically the same.

[BimmerFreak]

Plastic Fantastic DAOs

[BimmerFreak]

Or Tactical Tuperware

[memphismason]

The New 1911s

[Guest Grout]

Gloxamolies.

[Guest sling]

That plastic thing that pokes things that go boom...

[Guest HunterH]

Or Tactical Tuperware

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[Marswolf]

Or Tactical Tuperware

Only tactical if it has a big-ass dot sight on it, isn't it?

[nightrunner]

polymer pistol

[Marswolf]

polymer pistol

Nah, I have a USP. Polymer but nothing like the striker fired handguns.

[nightrunner]

i just knew someone was going to throw up the USP at me

[musicman]

ND Machine?

Leg Destroyer?

"OOPS! Gun"

[Guest sling]

+1 on the USP comment Mars.

Though the USP is a poly framed gun... it is in no way "tuperware."

[Guest HunterH]

Are there no XD, M&P, and/or Glock lovers out there to stick up for our faithful sidearm of choice?? There is bound to be a name other than "plastic pop-gun" and such...

[nightrunner]

i have a XD and love it. it seems more like a tool than a beautiful machine(1911)

[BryanP]

I call my XD45 "reliable."

[Daniel]

call it whatever you want imo. its still not going anywhere.

[deerslayer]

Are there no XD, M&P, and/or Glock lovers out there to stick up for our faithful sidearm of choice?? There is bound to be a name other than "plastic pop-gun" and such...

Sorry, but I think the terms "tupperware" and "plastic fantastic" are here to stay.

[SHbicycle]

I call it the wifes gun, are as my son puts it that girlgun.

[Marswolf]

My answer was pretty much in the first post here.

I just call them striker fired handguns. The polymer frame is just a variation of the basic handgun. I have a metal framed, striker fired handgun from the 1980s.

The basic design feature is that it is striker fired rather than using a hammer. It may have different materials for the frame; it may have more or fewer safeties; it may be SA or technically DA; it may have changeable backstraps; it may have more or less chamber support; you may or may not be able to field strip it without dry firing. All variations on a basic striker fired design.

Which one, among them, is better is a matter of preference and the importance placed upon different features in the design but that isn't the topic at hand.

[GhostDog]

I say we just call them "perfection". Come on, Mars, I know you can't leave that one alone. Bring on the Haterade.

On a serious note, aren't the Kahr pistols striker fired? I've never had one and was just wondering.

[Guest HunterH]

I think the Taurus PT 24/7 is a striker fired as well. Any others that fit this category??

[molonlabetn]

Walther P99

Steyr M9-S9

Taurus Millenium

Kahr P & PM series

S&W Sigma

HiPoint

FN Five-seveN USG

...

[Mike.357]

I think the obvious answer is to call them EBP's.

Evil Black Pistols.

[dcloudy777]

Meh... they're all just decendants of the H&K VP70...

DanO