Everything about Kahr PM45

About Kahr PM45

The PM45 is a semi-automatic, striker-fired pistol with a locked-breech design, relying on a dropping-barrel system which is an modification of the Browning system with a lug just above the chamber locking the barrel into the roof of the slide.

Even though the trigger of this model is designated as the DAO, what means the double-action, only by the manufacturer, its operation is actually quite similar to the operation of the Glock, Springfield Armory XD, etc.

Truly double-action only triggers are designed to thoroughly cock and fire a pistol, allowing a re-fire operation on a miss-fired round even without racking the slide. The other models mentioned before have very similar trigger design as the Kahr pistols. Its triggers utilize a slide-assisted cocking action which removes much of its weight and length of the trigger pull. The result of its design is that trigger is not able to cock the striker on its own, that is functionally much more similar to a single-action trigger