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« Last post by ECR on June 03, 2025, 10:26:26 AM »Here it is. . . . . . My, how time has a way of moving along without a care in the world!
It was 20 years ago this year that we were The NRA Shooting Illustrated Magazine's "Handgun of the Year" for 2005!
An NRA Golden Bullseye Award . . . . . . for Best Handgun 2005
It was quite the surprise for sure. Karl and I were dumbfounded by it and very humbled. It was, and has been, an absolute honor of our lives to have achieved such an award as this.
I have attached a couple of photographs of the magazine article here. If you zoom in, you can read their short synopsis of what we did. Whiley Clapp loved the gun. He kept that first R9 we sent him. We asked him for the gun back after he reviewed it, but Whiley being Whiley, he said to us. . . . I'm not sending this back, bill me, I'm keeping this one! Ha haa . . . . . He loved that little fella. He shot it pretty well too!
We love all of the people we met along the way in the industry. It was truly an honor to have been accepted by so many good people who were there as we all did what we do to promote and advance the firearms community and those of us who love to shoot for fun, for hunting, and to protect our loved ones, our families, and our friends. God has blessed us all.
It was an exciting time, just post-9/11, to have introduced such an innovative firearm that changed how people carried a small pistol for protection while being discreet. We can all thank my brother Karl N. Rohrbaugh, the designer of the R9, for that!
Sincere Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
It was 20 years ago this year that we were The NRA Shooting Illustrated Magazine's "Handgun of the Year" for 2005!
An NRA Golden Bullseye Award . . . . . . for Best Handgun 2005
It was quite the surprise for sure. Karl and I were dumbfounded by it and very humbled. It was, and has been, an absolute honor of our lives to have achieved such an award as this.
I have attached a couple of photographs of the magazine article here. If you zoom in, you can read their short synopsis of what we did. Whiley Clapp loved the gun. He kept that first R9 we sent him. We asked him for the gun back after he reviewed it, but Whiley being Whiley, he said to us. . . . I'm not sending this back, bill me, I'm keeping this one! Ha haa . . . . . He loved that little fella. He shot it pretty well too!
We love all of the people we met along the way in the industry. It was truly an honor to have been accepted by so many good people who were there as we all did what we do to promote and advance the firearms community and those of us who love to shoot for fun, for hunting, and to protect our loved ones, our families, and our friends. God has blessed us all.
It was an exciting time, just post-9/11, to have introduced such an innovative firearm that changed how people carried a small pistol for protection while being discreet. We can all thank my brother Karl N. Rohrbaugh, the designer of the R9, for that!
Sincere Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
