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    PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES

    Jan 24, 2020 6 minutes
    BY IAIN HARRISON
    PHOTOS BY
    KENDA LENSEIGNE

    We liked the Sphinx line of handguns. With their European take on an STI-like frame, they brought a certain sense of old-world style to 9mm carry and duty pistols, and we were looking forward to seeing what they could do with a full-house competition gun. Then, the wheels fell off.

    After selling to Kriss and seeing that brand’s Swiss parent company hit the skids, the U.S. subsidiary continues to make the SDP compact and duty version of the handguns we reviewed all the way back in CONCEALMENT Issue 1 and RECOIL Issue 7. The original owner has now revived the design with a new company based in Switzerland, and if the example we’ve shot is anything to go by, you’ll like the results.

    Based on CZ75 architecture, the Phoenix Redback uses the Czech pistol’s familiar slide-rails-inside-frame layout, with a Browning/Petter-designed, kidney-shaped under-barrel cam handling lockup duties. It departs from the original, however, in the

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