All-New Pistol From Springfield Armory

It's not another XD variant, it's not a 1911, and it's not a stretched Hellcat. It's a new line of duty pistols using a modern modular chassis system like the P320, doesn't require a trigger pull for field-stripping, and it can direct-mount the most popular miniature red dot sights without the use of failure-prone adapter plates or gigantic suppressor-height backup irons.

It's called the Echelon, and my full review of it will be in a forthcoming issue of Shooting Illustrated.

The test pistol arrived with the Trijicon RMR RM06, Surefire X300U-A, and a Safariland 6360RDS Level Three retention holster. I'm not any kind of psychic, but if I had to read these tea leaves, I'd say that Geneseo and their Croatian friends are finally going to make a serious play for LE sales, something that never happened with the XD series.

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