Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Prototype Colt-Vektor: A 1911 on the Outside and a Beretta on the Inside" video.

  1.  @JohnDoe-nf7up  The SSP was a slightly modified M1971, that Colt could have put on the marked in mid '70s along with the Beretta 92 and CZ75, but they preferred to miss the "wondernines" train. BTW the fact that the SSP didn't win the JSSA program shouldn't have prevented them to put it on the market anyway (like SIG, FN, Walther or Steyr did with their bids).
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  2.  @JohnDoe-nf7up  "We have a trusted and true design that anyone wants and commands incredible prices on the used market. We just need to put it in production as is". "Yeah but, out of nostalgia goggles, the original trigger group was not that good." "Right! We are Colt. Now we can make it way worse!".
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  3. Design patents expired in 14 years (15 since 2015). In mid ’90s any patent on the 92 (and mechanically this is a 92, no “S”, “SB” or “F”) had long expired. The only things still covered by a patent were the few cosmetic changes between the 92SB and the 92F/M9, but anyone could have made even a perfect copy of a 92SB without infringing any patent.
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  4.  @hendriktonisson2915  The SSP was a slightly modified M1971, that Colt could have put on the marked in mid '70s along with the Beretta 92 and CZ75 but, being Colt, they obviously preferred to miss the "wondernines" train. The fact that the SSP didn't win the JSSA program shouldn't have prevented them to put it on the market anyway like SIG, FN, Walther or Steyr did with their bids, but, hey, they are Colt, so....
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  5. The frame mounted safety is not an "improvement". It was there on the original Beretta 92, and it's placed there on any 92 model that has not a decocker.
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  6. Beretta already used vertec grips on the Egyptian contract Beretta M1951 (that's the 92's direct ancestor). It was really not a novelity.
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  7. The safety is on the frame on any 92 model that has not a decocker. It's the slide mounted decocker that makes sense.
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  8. Obviously Colt didn't made anything out of it. It worked. In the mid '90s the patent of the original '92 had long expired, and anyone could have made a clone (like Taurus already did).
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  9. He actually inaugurated the tradition of filing for bankrupcy.
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  10.  @zoiders  Mauser patented the pivoting locking block in 1911. Walther waited until the expiration of Mauser's patent first to submit their own one in 1936, It expired in 1950, exactly in time for Beretta to introduce the M1951.
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  11. Then why to not stitch to the M1938 leggings? They probably contributed to win the world war more than the 1911 (I know it's a joke, don't worry ;) ).
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  12. The frame mounted safety was there on the original Beretta 92, and it's placed there on any Beretta 92 model that has not a decocker.
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  13. Probalby any Beretta 92 magazine fits.
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