[SHOT 2026] SIG Sauer Introduces Additional P211 Options!
SIG Sauer introduced their 9mm hammer-fired double stack 2011-style pistol, the P211, back in Summer 2025. This week at SHOT Show they had a few new additions to the highly competitive line.
SIG Sauer launched the P211 line with the P211-GTO, which they described as built for speed and precision. It featured a ported barrel and compensator to give competitive shooters an edge. Now they’re adding the GT4 and GT5 to the line up and a number of new finish configurations to the GTO line.
The GT4 has a 5 inch, uncompensated, barrel while the GT5 has a 5 inch, uncompensated, barrel. The two new GT pistols will be available in both black and Coyote.
The GT4 and GT5 both feature:
- Carry length SIG-LOC™ PRO optic-ready slides
- Aggressive duty style serrations
- Fully ambidextrous controls
- Carry length steel frame and alloy grip module with G10 grip panels
- Skeletonized flat blade trigger
- Removable steel low-profile magwell
Both guns have bull barrels with the GT4 having a with 4.2” barrel while the GT5 has a 5” barrel.
Also added to the line-up are the new Nightshift and Spectre customised compensated models and the GTO Combat. The Nightshift has a grey finish with blue accented controls from Custom Works while the Spectre has a black finish with Custom Works High polish titanium nitride controls, trigger and magwell. The P211 GTO Combat is two-toned with a black slide and a Coyote frame.
All the new P211s are expected to start shipping in the next few weeks. Find out more at www.sigsauer.com.
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I'm not getting the title. What repeats of the same old mistakes. Where is that in this article?
Jai138914749:
Are you too young and uninformed about Glock's first 15-20 years in the US while getting its impressive market share? Which of course would require you to not bother to look at history...
Or have you just forgotten?
T-shirts, keys, and i don't remember what else (I'll admit that) have found their way inside Glock trigger guards dozens of times, often with the help of bad holster choices. Some went bang on holstering, fewer went bang after holstering and movement finished the trigger pull. I'll need to check the very short list of incidents at Front Sight over there in Pahrump to confirm if one of those was a Glock and a bad holster. There's a reason why the people there and at probably every other school forbid any trigger or trigger shoe wider than the trigger guard.
Still, the frequency (still low) of P320 incidents, even after subtracting their subset of careless handling followed by lies, makes me remain open to the possibility that some still-secret combination of events and/or conditions CAN cause that fully-cocked striker to fly forward, get past the frame-mounted secondary sear, and light the primer. The most likely scenario requires that what passes for a firing pin block also be out of the way. It remains maddening that no one has been able to replicate it. But seeing video of holstered P320s launching bullets wit no one touching them leaves me convinced it can happen.
Sorry for continuing the off-topic. Maybe I'm just bitter that no one is making wide-body 1911s in .45 ACP. Priced above $5,000 doesn't count.