TARA Aerospace TM-9X

Interesting, thanks for sharing.
It looks like quite a low bore axis and design decent, ballanced. Compare to standrd guns (well, glock), does it comes with some extra features?

Just a few days ago I was watching some videos about this pistol. It seems very nice with a peculiar trigger sistem.
The reset looks alot shorter than 3mm. I think it's a pistol made for the police: first shot DA, then if the trigger is fully forward released it's in DA again. If you are a "reset shooter", after the first DA shot, the trigger is like a SA striker fired type of trigger. Pretty interesting.
I think the idea is to have a very safe type of trigger on the first shot and when the shooter, for some reason, decides to stop shooting.

Pretty good review on it:

I would be worried about spare parts and a warranty. Will extra mags and recoil springs be available. Sights? Say it doesn't shoot to point of aim. Just wondering because I have owned orphan guns before where I was on my own if I had a problem.

railroader said:

I would be worried about spare parts and a warranty. Will extra mags and recoil springs be available. Sights? Say it doesn't shoot to point of aim. Just wondering because I have owned orphan guns before where I was on my own if I had a problem.

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Agreed. Also IMO the Walther P99 SA is a similar but better system and proven and supported pistol by major manufacturer with USA presence including lifetime waranty. The P99 also has a physical striker indicator that protrudes through the rear of the slide that the shooter can put their thumb over to detect any movement of the trigger while holstering.

railroader

I would be worried about spare parts and a warranty. Will extra mags and recoil springs be available. Sights? Say it doesn't shoot to point of aim.

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That's also has been my concern about some of these new but relatively obscure gun manufacturers. Of course I felt the same way when I bought my Steyr M9 some years back and discovered here in the U.S. it sort of was who was the "Importer of the Month" this time with these guns. I had to go through several different companies before I found one that would send me the spare magazine that was supposed to come with the gun.

Thanks for posting about this, Slater. I had never heard of this gun, or the "DARE" trigger system.

Also....Montenegro?! Montengro is tiny. Albania has 4.5 times the population of Montenegro. There are quite a few much bigger countries that have not produced a pistol since the muzzle-loader era.

Any chance these were made in some country that is not allowed to export firearms to the USA, and Montenegro is just acting as a front? China and Russia leap to mind.

It seems a pistol originally designed by Schmeisser and called SLP-9. Tara Aerospace is in Montenegro. Probably Tara bought the design from Schmeisser because in Montenegro they can make the pistol at the same quality for less money. So the pistol now made by Tara can have a chance in the USA.
Eastern Europe Countries like Cech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, make some good pistols...

Why do we care that it was "assigned an NSN"? And in what country? (I can't get to the site to read.)

Just curious.

5-SHOTS said:

It seems a pistol originally designed by Schmeisser and called SLP-9. Tara Aerospace is in Montenegro. Probably Tara bought the design from Schmeisser because in Montenegro they can make the pistol at the same quality for less money. So the pistol now made by Tara can have a chance in the USA.
Eastern Europe Countries like Cech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, make some good pistols...

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OK, Montenegro has a population of about 620,000. That's about 10,000 more than Luxembourg. It's less than Memphis, Tennessee. I would not think they have an aerospace company that can go around buying pistol designs and the tooling for them. IMO, if the pistols were made there, somebody else supplied the tooling and trained the workers. Or maybe the parts were bought from a non-Montenegrin company that went bankrupt and were just finished up and assembled in Montenegro.

On the other hand, my ignorance about the Montenegrin economy is total. I looked up their population, because I knew it was a small place, but that's it. I should probably brace myself for learning something.

Anyway, something similar happened in the USA about 30 years ago, when a company named American Arms seems to have bought the work-in-process from a failed European company called SITES that had been making a 380 DAO pistol that SITES called the "Resolver".

AA assembled the parts in Kansas City, Missouri, and sold the completed pistols as the made-in-USA American Arms "Escort". I think the total involved was about 6,000. It was a good design, but the early production bugs never got fixed; the trigger spring broke too easily and the plastic the grips were made of went bad over time. Something to remember if this Tara pistol had a short production run too.

PS - There's several Taras on GunBroker, all about $460-$470. When else am I ever going to be able to get a pistol made Montenegro?! Of course, I bought a Felk for the same reason, only Australia instead of Montenegro, and just wound up selling it because it was a boring Glock knock-off.

5-SHOTS said:

It seems a pistol originally designed by Schmeisser and called SLP-9. Tara Aerospace is in Montenegro. Probably Tara bought the design from Schmeisser because in Montenegro they can make the pistol at the same quality for less money. So the pistol now made by Tara can have a chance in the USA.
Eastern Europe Countries like Cech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, make some good pistols...

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You have it backwards. Tara has always been the manufacturer. Schmeisser just rebranded it and sold it as the SLP-9.

History is filled with failed firearms manufactures..


I wouldn't give 5 bucks for one.. That said, what's the over under on Ian doing a video in 2-3years?

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You have it backwards. Tara has always been the manufacturer. Schmeisser just rebranded it and sold it as the SLP-9.

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That's fine for me since I've always believed that the people of Montenegro were capable of producing a pistol. I was just proposing a possible hypothesis for the skeptics. I'm glad this assumption was wrong.

I love obscure guns...

If I had mucho mula, I'd own one

The spare part avalibity is valid argument, but i would like to point on fact, that this topic isnt about selling that gun. Its just baout showing interesting piece.

Btw, Montenegro may have just 620k citizens, but it kinda doesnt matter since even Sig Sauer USA have just around 1200 employes.

For the record, Slovenia also makes good pistols...

Idahou said:

Btw, Montenegro may have just 620k citizens, but it kinda doesnt matter since even Sig Sauer USA have just around 1200 employes.

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Id agree, was a strange argument.

Whats the Population of Hartford, CT - Springfield, MA - Smyrna, GA, etc. etc. etc. etc.

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I don't think WE care at all. TARA seems proud of it because it signals NATO acceptance, possibly leading to more sales. The country is Montenegro, which isn't exactly known for small arms. TARA Aerospace seems to be mainly involved with energetic aircraft components.

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Meh.

"NSN" is commonly referred to as "National Stock Number" in the US and the UK. Other countries refer to it as "NATO Stock Number". Either way, it's the same standardized "system" of accounting for parts. The two digit number (77) in this case reflects the country of origin (Montenegro) and the seven digit number afterwards is unique "part number" assigned within that country. (There is no correlation between part numbers from country to country with respect to this seven digit portion: The US, UK, France, Spain, and any number of countries which use the NSN system of accounting for parts can assign the same seven digit number to any part/component they wish. The two digit number identifies the country so it can be positively identified.)

Common screws get assigned an NSN.

But yeah, I guess...marketing is important and I'm all about that, especially when it comes to firearms. Make 'em and sell 'em!