The gun was actually designed by Reed Knight I believe, you know the Knight's Armament guy that did the AR-10 .308's. Very talented gun designer. I think the problem is that Colt bought the rights to the gun, then screwed around with it to get it in production. I played with one of the original alloy versions, and almost bought it.

I remember writing that the trigger reminded me of the ping-pong ball shooters of the day. As the trigger was pulled, it ran up an inclined plane until it reached the rear of the pull, where it released under spring tension and "fired" a ping-pong ball.

The 2000 felt worse.

Maybe Knight saw Colt coming and sold Colt a pig in a poke, or maybe Colt took a good product and screwed it up. Who knows.

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