Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless 9mm 10+1 — Superb Compact

Description

The Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless puts a matte stainless slide over a deep aubergine polymer frame, in the ten-round configuration of Taurus’s compact 9mm: a 3.37-inch stainless barrel, an accessory rail, and two magazines.

Taurus offers this frame in two purples and they are genuinely different. The light one is lavender; this is the dark, almost wine-coloured version, and against a satin stainless slide it reads as considered rather than loud. The Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless is mechanically identical to the black gun — the colour is pigment in the polymer, not paint on the surface.

What you get

• A 3.37-inch matte stainless barrel inside a matte stainless slide, serrated front and rear.
• A dark purple polymer frame with a Picatinny rail moulded into the dust cover.
• The Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless holds ten rounds plus one in a flush-fitting magazine, and two magazines in the box.
• Stippled texture across both grip panels, the front strap and the backstrap.
• A trigger-blade safety and a striker block on the Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless, with no manual thumb safety to remember under pressure.

Stainless, and why colour is not frivolous

• Stainless steel resists corrosion from the inside out. A coated carbon slide is protected only while the coating survives, and holster wear is exactly what wears a coating through.
• The matte finish does not flash the way a polished slide can in low light.
• Pigment moulded through the frame means a scratch shows more purple, not grey plastic under a chipped coating.
• A distinctive gun is easy to identify in a safe, a range bag or a shared bench — small practical benefits that black pistols do not offer.
• Everything else is standard GX2. Magazines, holsters and accessories for any GX2 fit the Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless.
• Nothing is shortened to reach ten rounds: the frame, grip and barrel are the same as the thirteen-round gun, so you keep a full three-finger hold rather than trading grip length for legality.
• If you later move somewhere without a magazine limit, the thirteen-round magazines drop straight in and nothing else about the pistol changes.

Specifications

• Manufacturer part number: 1-GX2939DP-10
• UPC: 725327637196
• Calibre: 9mm Luger
• Capacity: 10+1
• Barrel: 3.37 in, matte stainless steel
• Slide: matte stainless steel, serrated front and rear
• Frame: dark purple polymer with Picatinny rail
• Action: striker-fired
• Safety: trigger blade and striker block
• Sights: fixed
• Magazines: two

9mm Luger is standardised by SAAMI — identical dimensions and pressure ceiling from every manufacturer, made in enormous volume, and therefore cheap. That is the real argument for a pistol at this price: the money saved on the gun buys the practice that actually makes someone competent with it.

The dark purple frame is also stocked with a black slide and thirteen rounds and with a stainless slide and thirteen. The lighter shade is the light purple stainless. Other colours include grey, tan and plain black.

Why the Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless earns its place

• The Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless uses stainless steel on both the barrel and the slide, at a price where coated carbon steel is normal.
• A full-size grip and barrel inside a ten-round limit.
• Colour moulded through the frame rather than sprayed on top of it.
• An accessory rail and two magazines included.
• Shared parts, magazines and holsters across the whole GX2 range.

This suits a first pistol, a household pistol and a carry gun for anyone in a ten-round jurisdiction, particularly someone who carries close to the body where a stainless slide earns its keep. The trigger is serviceable rather than refined and the sights are plain black — the Taurus GX2 Dark Purple Stainless competes on value and on not looking like every other pistol in the case.

In stock now at MAG5 Firearms in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Handgun sales ship to a licensed dealer in your state, where you will complete a Form 4473 and the background check before taking delivery.