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SHOT Show 2012 Bonus Podcast: The XDs from Springfield Armory

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🗓️ 17 January 2012

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

On this special Shot Show podcast: Team Springfield's Rob Leatham announces the brand-new Springfield Armory XDs, a single-stack, super small, .45 ACP pistol for concealed carry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right at Media Day here at Shat Show.

0:02.6

We're talking with Rob Latham.

0:03.8

We're at the Springfield, I wouldn't say Booth,

0:06.2

but we're actually at the range.

0:07.2

I keep seeing Booth too.

0:08.4

Let's call it the bay.

0:09.3

We're at the bay here.

0:10.9

And I was walking by and saw this huge crowd I go, okay something's going on here,

0:15.1

what's going on?

0:16.1

What is this, you weren't supposed to show this here?

0:17.7

Well we weren't going to and then somebody said, hey you know what, let's at least get this

0:21.5

thing out and let some people look at it

0:23.1

what is it it's called an X D S and what it basically is is a variation of the

0:29.6

XD line but it's not an XD or an XD M made smaller.

0:33.1

It's a whole new platform.

0:34.5

If you look at internally, there's no parts interchangibility between it.

0:39.1

We wanted to make the gun as small from a profile from the from the back as narrow as possible Tom.

0:46.5

So the gun when you measure from one side of the frame to the other to the most

0:51.2

the largest dimension it's to the slide stop it's actually not the

0:56.4

frame of the slide the slide stop sticks out a little bit more and that's that's

0:59.6

under an inch so it's for and it's 45 ACP caliber I need it.

1:04.0

45 ACP now the XDS S for Slim for skinny for small.

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