I am tired of reading the same thing over and over, again. Unlike The Honeymooners or I Love Lucy, reading the same articles over and over is not even better with each viewing. Whether it's Handguns, Guns and Ammo, Guns, Shotgun News, Gun Tests, or even Gunblast.com, and dozens of other magazines and gun websites and they all have the exact same reviews on the same guns.
The new"IT" gun is the Ruger LCP. There is nothing innovative or great about this pistol. It's a near copy of Kel-Tec's P3AT that has been around, for, ohhh, about 4 years. But, wait...the Kel Tecs a little smaller and 2 ounces lighter. Every review has pointed to the similarities between these two guns and except for the "hold open" that seems to be missing from the Ruger, all the reviews love the "new" and "innovative" Ruger. Yet, just 4 years ago in September 2004's Guns and Ammo, Wiley Clapp said, "Ingenuity is often nothing more than a combination of existing principles applied in unique ways. Kel-Tec's new P-3AT has no single feature that is not established in modern pistol design, yet it has no competition in its niche."
Ruger's only majesty in all this attention is that this is their first pocket auto-pistol. OOHH, AHHH...so what? It's already been the subject of a recall for some of its earliest pistols....
Good Job, Gun Writers... Good Job. How about spending more time and effort on a weapon that shows real ingenuity, real invention, real promise, or even real new and stop wasting page space on a copy and a fairly bad one at that.
