Ship is right.
I don't think the delay on the FNP45 is all that long.
The HK45 was in Shotgun News about 3 years ago and they just started shipping a couple of weeks ago. The PX4 45 was shown at the 2007 SHOT show and just started shipping. So, it does take a while to get ATF approval and ramp up production.
People need to remember that gun companies generally have limited resources. This is why the anti-gun forces started doing lawsuits- knowing that unlike tobacco companies, gun makers can't afford endless lawsuits and would go out of business or agree to draconian restrictions, imposed by courts instead of Congress, on how they could do business.
So, instead of having tens of thousands of workers churning out new guns, they generally have dozens. This is one of the reasons it takes a long time for new models to show up at your dealer's.
Yea, after U told me - I went and checked. They are selling the law enforcement models right now (of the PX4 45) in limited #'s right now...
My point was just that all these guns took a long time to come out even after we started seeing them pop up in magazine articles months and months back....