Don't let 'em ruin the P30 long slide.

[Samgotit]

For those who do not know: There's a spastic, grass roots movement affront to keep putting safeties on LEM equipped HK P30L's (long slides). HK imported about 500 of these abominations on "accident" and now indoor range gods who want to play 1911 are clamoring for more. They are a vocal bunch, and I fear that all we will see imported into the country is P30 long slides with a silly safety (could be completly unfounded, but it's still a fear), which means NO ONE who wants to shoot a LEM P30 long slide without a safety in production will be allowed. It's constitutes an external mod by removing it, and it's a no-go.

I don't know what can be done about these people. Write you legislators?

 

[balance 740]

There was a discussion about this on the H&K forum not too long ago. It was stated that the 500 they brought in were no accident, and that the new H&K shooting team were going to be using the LEM P30L as their pistol. So in order for them to use these pistols, they would have to be production pistols with at least 500 produced, so we got 500 manual safety equipped P30L pistols in LEM configuration. I'm not sure if H&K will ever make another run of them, unless somehow the shooting team makes them popular.

 

[Samgotit]

The team is using one each LEM and DA/SA, both with light hammer springs.

Let us hope that the horrid safety version was indeed a limited to a run of 500 and we will eventually get the pistol as originally conceived in the non-long-slide.