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A Sleek, Slim 9mm
The Taurus PT709, revamped and refined.
The new Taurus PT709 "Slim" 9mm, originally announced in January 2008, is finally on gunshop shelves. The reason for the long delay is simple: Based on feedback about the early prototypes, Taurus redesigned several significant characteristics of the gun, making it very different from the product I originally reviewed in the August 2008 issue of G&A's sister publication, Petersen's Handguns. The external configuration of both the slide and the grip frame were changed, and a fully ...
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