Ruger Suing Thompson for copying the 10-22

[Wheeler]

I'll take it. PM inbound!

I forgot it already has the auto release as well.

 

[Chatsworth]

Sounds nice

 

[spencer60]

Didn’t Ruger steal the early Keltec P3AT design?

Sort of and not really. People like to say they are clones, but they are really pretty different. However they are both uber-small, polymer, blowback DA-only 380s, so you could say they stole the concept around the whole package, even though none of those individual items were anything proprietary to KelTec.

Actually, I'd guess it was the best thing that ever happened to KT. When the LCP first came out it sold out in a few weeks or so. Everybody still wanted a tiny 380 though, so KT ended up with a nice sales bump for a gun that had been sitting on dealer shelves before that.

 

[Gimmebackmybullets]

Geez, I hope they don't turn around and sue AMT for making the far-superior, timney-triggered, Clark-barreled, all-SS 15-22 Lightning (and variants) rifle. I would hate to have to give all fifteen or twenty of mine up.

Oh wait... I think they already did.

Damn. What would you take for just one of them? I got a lightining pistol. I wouldnt mind having a rifle as well

 

[cr107]

Meh. Ruger has been ripping off the aftermarket parts folks a lot recently. They pretty much stole the designs for their PC9 steel chassis and the 10/22 steel chassis.

 

[fattboyzz]

I hope they lose . Ruger.

Gimme a break ya freakin hippo crits

 

[CTS Tactical]

The Thompson Center also locks back on an empty mag.

 

[Wheeler]

Integrated rail is what the 10-22 has sorely needed and the nice aftermarket receivers are too expensive.

‘Is the TC mag a rotary design as well?

Yes. It will also use any of the Ruger mags or other aftermarket mags.

 

[Wheeler]

The Thompson Center also locks back on an empty mag.

It will only lock back on the TCR22 magazine. It will not lock back on a standard Ruger or aftermarket magazine.

 

[CTS Tactical]

It will only lock back on the TCR22 magazine. It will not lock back on a standard Ruger or aftermarket magazine.

That is correct. But then a ruger mag is not the standard mag for a TC rifle so...