by a small business called “Springfield Armory” owned by Elmer Ballance ... Later in the 1980s, the company began offering 1911-style handguns and established a custom shop to make higher ...

Springfield Armory entered the double-stack, M1911-style handgun market with its 1911 DS Prodigy in 2022, which was a full-size, steel-frame handgun chambered in 9 mm Luger. Now, for 2025 ...

This year, there aren’t as many new guns, but we do have more small-bore options and more guns that are optic-ready or even packaged with an optic, in the case of the new Mossberg 500.