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It came with a skeletonized spur hammer and an adjustable skeletonized (plastic) trigger, extended beavertail and grip safety, three-dot Novak-style sights, and a match barrel. With a retail prices hovering just below $1,000, it was not a cheap gun by any stretch, and was frequently compared to guns from Kimber and the like. One of the last models made when the company was still under Canadian ownership, the LTC was Para's match-grade, Commander-size model.
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So an EMT was sent, a call was made, the CFC's terrible on-hold music endured, the registration secured, ATT applied for, and voila, as easily as that we were the latest owners of a piece of Canadian pride.īut before we delve into our specific gun, perhaps we should recount what the LTC model represented for Para when it was new. Attractive to look at and coming with a few spare parts and even a set of faux ivory grips, it looked in decent shape, and most importantly fit with our timeline for this issue. Thankfully, we stumbled across a used Para LTC Stainless model for sale with a listed price of $800, and that was near enough to be transferred into our name and arrive in time for this issue's submission deadline. after all, how many other guns can you reasonably compare a Para LDA against? Although well known for their LDA and double stack P14 models, we wanted to source out one of the less common single-stack models, as they are easier to compare to any other 1911. and we did have a few criteria beyond the country of origin. That, surprisingly, proved more difficult than we anticipated. In order to make this comparison happen, we obviously needed to find an older Para pistol that hearkened back to an era when the firm still made their pistols on a 72,000 square foot shop floor in the heart of Liberal-land. So which is it? Eager to find out, we sourced out an old Canadian made Para 1911, forked over the $800 asking price, and pitted it against its modern equivalent. We've heard many a patriotic pistolero proudly proclaim their Canadian Para-Ordnance 1911 runs just fine, while others are quite keen to denounce all Para products to be little more than cleverly disguised shades of poo-brown taking the form of a handgun. But as Canadians are wont to do, there's more than a fair amount of gossip and rumour that surround those facts, the most pertinent of which relate to Para's quality both then and now. As a result, sales waned, and faced with an ever growing onslaught of political pressure, lower sales, and the tragic loss of one of the founding partners, Para-Ordnance announced it would be migrating its manufacturing and corporate headquarters to Pineville, North Carolina and would eventually be sold off in its entirety to the Freedom Group (most well known for owning Remington) in 2012. However, for as promising as their innovative designs were, rumours abounded of problematic quality controls and unreliability. As the story goes, they were long on creativity and short of gunmaking skills pioneering such impressive creations as the double-stack 1911 (which was their first product) and the light double action 1911, or LDA. Started by a pair of childhood friends in 1985, and with its headquarters residing in Toronto (of all places), Para-Ordnance was simultaneously one of the most revered and hated 1911 manufacturers on the market. Since the closure of the iconic Inglis plant, the Canadian manufacturing of handguns has been championed by various firms great and small, with the most notable one being a company by the name of Para-Ordnance. Perhaps it's the difficulty Canadians have with acquiring restricted firearms, or perhaps it's merely the different manner in which Canadians use pistols, but we just don't seem to be an environment that's proven conducive to the production of civilian guns. Sure, we did a great job with those Browning Hi-Powers churned out en masse by the Inglis factory, but ever since then we've struggled to find our footing. To put it succinctly, Canada has a spotty history when it comes to the production of handguns.