Sometimes a pistol design comes around that changes the way we look at handguns, becoming a trailblazer in influence and design. Other times, a good design may come and go as an “also ran,” making sentimental shooters wonder, “Whatever happened to it?” Then, there are the ones that fly under the radar and never seem to truly go away.
Such could be said for the pistols of Lionheart Industries, a U.S. company that manufactures a line of precision-crafted, aluminum-framed handguns with a unique trigger system that old timers might remember as being made by Daewoo in the waning days of the “Wondernines.”
HISTORY
Back in the early ’90s, the world was introduced to a pistol manufactured by Daewoo Industries of South Korea called the DP-51; its military designation in the South Korean arsenal was the K5. It was a double-stack 9mm featuring what was called a fast-fire mechanism or triple-action trigger. The idea was that you could cock the hammer for a single-action pull and then push it forward so that the trigger would still release the hammer like a
