Colt All American 2000 pistol
Type | Double Action semiautomatic |
Caliber | 9x19mm Luger / Para |
Weight unloaded | 800 g |
Length | 197 mm |
Barrel length | 114 mm |
Magazine capacity | 15 rounds |
The All American 2000 pistol was designed by the Reed Knight, Jr. and Eugene Stoner
(of M16 fame), at the time both working at Knight's Armament Co. The
design of the Knight's Model 2000 pistol has been purchased by Colt in
attempt to bring to the market a more or less up-to-date 9mm design,
suitable for police use. However, the pistol, as brought to the market
in 1991, was plagued by serious reliability and safety issues, combined
with very heavy and creepy double action only trigger. Two types of
Model 2000 pistol were made, with polymer or aluminium frames, and
neither sold well. As a result of poor sales, and in the view of coming
bankruptcy, Colt discontinued the All American 2000 in 1993, so the
initially advertised .40 and .45 caliber versions never came up.
All American 2000 is short recoil operated, locked breech design that
uses rotating barrel locking. Barrel have five radial locking lugs that
securely engage the slide; upon recoil, a separate lug on the underside
of the barrel follows the cam-shaped cut in the frame insert, and thus
rotates barrel to unlock from the slide. Trigger is of double action
only type, striker-fired, with automatic trigger safety. Despite the
obvious attempts to improve the trigger pull by introducing roller
bearings to the design, this pistol had a very poor (heavy, long and
uneven) trigger pull, resulting in poor accuracy. Magazines were of
double stack design, magazine release button located at the base of
triggerguard. Sights were fixed, rear sight blade dovetailed to the
slide.
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