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Pennsylvania based Cabot Guns transforms the 1911 into a work of fine art depicting the great American debate of gun control on a mirror image set of left and right hand pistols featuring President Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, Piers Morgan and Ted Nugent.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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A mirror image set of 1911 style pistols featuring artistic renderings of President Barrack Obama and Piers Morgan was displayed earlier this month at SHOT, the world\u2019s largest consumer firearms tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. The pistol set is named \u201cThe Left and the Right.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cabot Guns crafted this rare left and right-handed set of iconic 1911s over the last year. The pair are true mirror images of one another with the exception of the images on the handles. The grips of the right-hand gun depict President George W. Bush on one panel and Ted Nugent on the other while the left-hand pistol grips feature President Barack Obama and Piers Morgan. The pistol set illustrates elements of a great American debate on firearms. Fine art Scrimshander, Darrel Morris, was commissioned to carefully handcraft the art on each grip.<\/p>\n
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Cabot Guns President and Gun Designer Rob Bianchin had been contemplating the project for some time and wanted to use scrimshaw to detail the work. \u201cAs the guns are positioned in opposite directions, the grips show President Barack Obama facing to the left while President George W. Bush faces right,\u201d said Bianchin. \u201cWhile oriented towards one another, the right-hand pistol depicts Ted Nugent and the left-hand gun depicts Piers Morgan, representing the great ongoing debate in 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Nugent viewed the pistols during their exhibition at SHOT and described the work of Cabot Guns as ballistic art. \u201cCabot Guns treads the line between firearms and art. The medium of our art is our guns,\u201d added Bianchin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe art of scrimshaw \u2013 engraving on bone or ivory – dates back to the 1700s,\u201d noted Bianchin. \u201cAnd the detail in Darrel Morris\u2019 scrimshaw work is just fantastic.\u201d Morris explained the process of scrimshaw; “Scrimshaw works are created by punching tens of thousands of tiny holes in the surface of the ivory and filling them with black oil paint. This technique takes hours and hours of meticulous labor, but it makes it possible to achieve very delicate gradations of tone resulting in incredibly lifelike images.”<\/p>\n
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It should be noted that the Cabot left and right pistol sets are true mirror image pistols. The left-handed pistol is built from the ground up from a block of billet steel; it is not a converted right-handed pistol. Not only is the ejection port engineered to the left, but all small controls have been inverted. Even the rifling in the barrel has been reversed.<\/p>\n
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A three-year-old start-up, Cabot Gun Company is based in the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania. Cabot utilizes Penn United Technologies Inc. to produce its 1911s. Penn United Technologies is a world-renowned manufacturer of precision components for aerospace, nuclear, and other industries requiring precision manufacturing. \u201cEach Cabot represents the work of over 70 of America’s finest engineers, tool makers and master craftsmen,” added Bianchin. \u201cOur objective is to build an important and enduring American brand,demonstrating how the finest products in the world are built right here in America.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cabot Guns was launched in 2011. In a short time, the company has won two consecutive NRA National Pistol Championships. The Cabot 1911 has been described as \u201cthe Rolls Royce of 1911’s” by S.P. Fjestad, Author and Editor of the “Blue Book of Gun Values.<\/p>\n
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Media Contact: Robert Bianchin, (724) 524-1002 or\u00a0robbianchin@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n For additional information on Cabot Guns please visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.cabotguns.com<\/a>. For information on Scrimshaw artist Darrel Morris visit\u00a0http:\/\/darrelmorris.fineartstudioonline.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Respectfully,<\/p>\n Robert A. Bianchin, President<\/p>\n 1-855-THE-1911<\/p><\/blockquote>\n While I\u2019ve never shot a Cabot 1911, they have earned high praise among those who are<\/i> experienced with them.<\/p>\n I worry that my left-handed friends in the gun owners\u2019 civil rights movement might take the Obama\/Morgan version as an insult.\u00a0 Perhaps they can come to terms with it by picturing each of their grip panels shedding a tear every time they press the trigger.<\/p>\n Personally, I\u2019ve only met two of the four men depicted, and I respect them both: I\u2019d be proud to own a pistol bearing President Bush\u2019s image or Ted Nugent\u2019s.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s a reason why I should have the one with the pictures of the two of those men I haven\u2019t <\/i>met. Being right-handed, it occurs to me that I should buy the left-handed one with the pictures of President Obama and Piers Morgan\u2026install an ambidextrous safety since I\u2019m right-handed\u2026and enter a quick draw contest.<\/p>\n In theory, I should have an advantage, since any self-respecting holster would want that <\/i>pistol to be gone from it sooner.<\/i><\/p>\n
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