However, the frame-mounted slide catch and manual safety lever are not swappable, so lefties must learn to cope with those. A gun that bordered on being full-sized, the G3 has a 4-inch barrel and a 15+1 magazine capacity.Īs a companion pistol in the same family, the G3C, with the “C” denoting it as a compact model, came along shortly afterward and sports a shorter 3.2-inch barrel along with a shorter grip, which trimmed standard capacity to 12+1.le Purchasing surplus tooling and equipment from Beretta, which had made Model 92 pistols for the Brazilian military in a factory in Sao Paulo on a six-year contract during the 1970s, Taurus soon began making PT92 series clones.īranching out from full-sized guns into more compact models, ideal for concealed carry, Taurus introduced their first generation of polymer-framed semi-autos with the PT-111 Millennium in 1998.Īfter more than a decade of user feedback, the company revamped and improved the PT-111 to create a more reliable and ergonomic second generation gun, the G2 Millennium, in 2013, soon dropping all but the “G2” from its marketing.Īgain, taking lessons learned from thousands of guns heading out to the market, Taurus updated the design to create its third generation pistol, the G3, in 2020. Forjas Taurus Ltda (Portuguese = Taurus Forge), a Brazilian firearms maker that has been increasingly expanding operations to the United States over the past couple of generations, started off making revolvers in 1941 and continued that path– during which they were owned by the same company as Smith & Wesson for about a decade– until 1980 when they expanded into the world of semi-automatics.
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