By Keith Wood
In the 1990s, the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) went looking for a new handgun. By 1998 its search led the agency to a full-size 1911 built by the Springfield Armory Custom Shop, known as the Professional Model. Later, a similar model was chosen to equip the bureau’s regional SWAT teams.
The development of those handguns led Springfield Armory to offer a production handgun for the civilian market based on the pistols developed for the FBI. The result was the Tactical Response Pistol (TRP), an enhanced 1911 with many of the bells and whistles that, in those days, you’d expect to see only on a custom pistol.
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