We were sworn to secrecy before we even arrived. Springfield Armory had invited 20 some writers, bloggers and Internet gun gurus to see the company’s latest product. We had dinner the night before the event, and we each had a guess as to what the new gun might be. One writer speculated that it would be an XD chambered for the .380 ACP while a couple others thought it might be a .308 Winchester version of the new Saint semi-auto rifle.
Springfield Armory XD-E has a brand-new gun – the XD-E. Shown publicly for the first time today in the company’s booth at the 2017 NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, it’s going to make a few different groups of handgun shooters happy: