Concealed Carry Handguns – August 2019

The barrel of the

STR9 has a mod-

erate crown and a

stainless-steel recoil

spring guide rod

is used.

mounted using dovetail cuts and are

drift adjustable. A set screw locks the

rear sight in place.

The extractor is large and is pinned

in place. It is operated by a short coil

spring. A steel recoil rod with a single

captured coil spring is used to return

the slide into battery. A striker safety

plunger keeps the striker from moving

forward and striking the primer unless

the trigger is pulled and held, moving

the plunger out of the way of the

striker. Finally, a loaded chamber

indicator is located on the top of th

slide, directly behind the ejection p

This provides both a visual and tac

indication of whether or not there

round in the chamber.

Finger grooves are molded into the

front of the frame’s pistol grip and

different levels of texture are mold

into the grip area. The rear portion

thetexture,whichhitsthemeatof

palmofyourhandisquiteaggress

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aggressivenesswithsomesandpap

orgriptape.

Themodularbackstrapiseasily

removedbypullingthepolymerre

tainingclipdown,outofthemaga

well,thenslidingthebackstrapdow

andawayfromtheframe.Theexte

edslidereleaseiseasytooperate

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shooters.

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Like the frames, the

slides of the Gen5

G17 (top) and the

STR9 (bottom) are

very similar. The

main diference

here is the single

captive recoil spring

and stainless-steel

guide rod on the

STR9 and the

captive three-spring

recoil spring assem-

bly on a polymer

recoil rod.

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