Ambidextrous Autoloader

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Mr. Mosin

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Is there a truly ambidextrous semi auto handgun (compact or full size)on the market today (current or recent production) that fits these requirements ?

Ambidextrous or heel mag release
Top ejection (not right or left of slide)
Ambidextrous safety or DAO, DA/SA trigger pull ?
 
I think the top ejection excludes pretty much every pistol on the market.
Top ejection apart there are some options:
HK P2000;
HK P30;
HK VP9;
Walther P99 AS (PS, AM, LM version);
Walther PPQ classic (PS, AM, LM version);
Grand Power K100;
Arex Rex Delta.
There are probably others too but no one else comes to mind right now
 
The Springfield XD series, some 1911s and the HK P7 are ambi out of the box. I'm a lefty and I'm struggling to think of anything else that's setup fully ambi out of the box.

Finding all that AND top ejection is quite frankly a pipedream IMO. For whatever reason, standard pistol ejection has been to the right for over a century with very few exceptions.
 
My Browning 1911-380 ejects almost vertically up, although I'm quite certain it wasn't intentional. It was supposed to mimic a regular 1911 in its design, and the ejector is not placed entirely correctly in it. Either way, our local range had a shelf going across stalls, it supports lights. When my wife shoots it, I often see empties fly up and land on that shelf. Maybe you can find an XD that throws them up too.
 
as a left hander the S&W 3913 works for me, decocker-safety on both sides.
 

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As a LH, I find my P7s to be as ambi as one can get - point, squeeze, pull the trigger; only one small button for takedown.
 
I don't think I've ever seen a handgun that fits all that criteria. The few top-ejectors I've shot (which weren't actually designed to eject straight upward) tended to bounce the cases off my forehead, especially since I'm left-handed.

The closest I have to an ambidextrous pistol (dual mag release buttons, dual safety lever arms) is my Ruger P95.
 
if after 7 shots I still have more targets to worry about, the slide release will be the least of my concerns.
 
The Walther PPQ M1 fits the bill aside from “top eject”. I’m guessing you mean ejecting straight up? As a primarily left-handed shooter, autoloaders that eject to the right have never bothered me.
 
There are some pistols that are "lefty friendly" but not fully ambidextrous.
In some cases they have ambi magazine release button and ambi safety but not ambi slide stop (Pardini GT9, Ruger P95, for example), others have ambi slide stop and ambi safety but an only reversible magazine release button (CZ 85B, Glock Gen5, Walther PPQ M2, for example).
 
There are some pistols that are "lefty friendly" but not fully ambidextrous.
In some cases they have ambi magazine release button and ambi safety but not ambi slide stop (Pardini GT9, Ruger P95, for example), others have ambi slide stop and ambi safety but an only reversible magazine release button (CZ 85B, Glock Gen5, Walther PPQ M2, for example).
The PPQ M1 is fully ambidextrous with the paddle mag release on both sides of the trigger guard.
 
Glocks gen 4 or 5, not sure which, have slide release on both sides and the magazine catch can be reversed, right side ejection though.
 
H&K vp series and walther with the paddle release are the best ones. As i do not know of any auto that eject up.

Tho i have a glock that shots right up and always gives me marks on my forehead.
 
I, too, am puzzled by the desire for straight-up/top ejection. If cases eject straight up, one of three things is going to happen:
  1. Case goes forward. Now you have cases flitting around between you and the target. At best a distraction.
  2. Case goes straight up vertically. Unless you have escaped Earth's gravity, that case is coming back down on the gun. Likelihood of a jam from an old case landing back in the ejection port during cycling is high. (I have had at least two jams from brass bouncing laterally off walls back into the side of a gun, so it can definitely happen.)
  3. Case comes back at the shooter. People complain when a side-ejector does this. This is not considered desirable, for obvious reasons.
You want the cases to be out of the way and out of sight. Sideways is the best way to do that, if downward ejection is off the table (and it is for almost any conventional pistol). Since you're not maintaining a cheek weld on a pistol, it makes no difference whether the cases go left or right. None.

I'm right handed. I face many challenges when I shoot left handed. The case coming out of the left side of the gun is not one of them. It makes no difference.
 
Top eject you will need to go back to Luger, Mauser and Savage 45. It's the last is the one that meets your requirements.
 
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