54), Remington ultimately closed Para’s Pineville, N.C., plant and dropped the brand all together-promising, instead, a forthcoming line of Para-inspired pistols under the Remington name. After a brief re-introduction as Para USA (February 2014, p. The idea was well-received, especially by competition shooters. 45 ACP cartridges from the then-standard seven rounds to 14. Founded in the 1980s, Para-Ordnance originally offered its innovative frame and magazine as a kit that a shooter (or his pistolsmith) could pair with a standard M1911 slide to fully double the platform’s magazine capacity of. Remington then acquired Para-Ordnance in 2012, a company well known for wide-frame M1911s and expanded-capacity, double-column magazines. The shooting samples that came to me were all decent guns, and several were quite accurate. Remington, the senior arms maker in the republic, dating to 1816, had just begun offering several versions of its M1911 made in Ilion, N.Y. It was Remington’s version of the classic M1911 American service pistol, the R1.
Several years ago, I enjoyed the privilege of writing up a new entry in the great M1911 race. 45 ACP (left) and the Tomasie Custom Double Stack in. Among the five variants of the R1 1911 Double Stacks are the Tactical Double Stack Threaded in.