{"id":1096269,"date":"2021-12-07T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096269"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T01:59:05","slug":"sig-sauer-builds-pearl-harbor-1911s-donates-proceeds-to-veterans-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sig-sauer-builds-pearl-harbor-1911s-donates-proceeds-to-veterans-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sig Sauer Builds Pearl Harbor 1911s, Donates Proceeds to Veterans Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsig-sauer-builds-pearl-harbor-1911s-donates-proceeds-to-veterans-charity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/263756660_10159837101467603_4266720347348240337_n-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sig Sauer built three special 1911 pistols to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and is donating the proceeds from the firearms to the veterans charity Best Defense Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The pistols are the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Pistol, the USS <em>Arizona<\/em> Commemorative Pistol, and the USS <em>Oklahoma<\/em> Commemorative pistol.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sig Sauer put out a press release on December 7, 2021, explaining the significance of each of the three pistol designs:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"27\">\n<p><strong>Pearl Harbor Commemorative Pistol: <\/strong>Engravings commemorate the date and time of the attack: December 7, 1941 at 7:55am where Japanese warplanes descended on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, and the address by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the U.S. Congress formally requesting a declaration of war between the U.S. and Japan where he began with \u201cA day which will live in infamy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>USS Arizona (BB-39) Commemorative Pistol:<\/strong> Engravings commemorate the USS Arizona which was hit by Japanese torpedo bombers which detonated in a munitions magazine, which violently exploded and sank the ship, losing 1,177 officers and crewmen.&nbsp; The USS Arizona Memorial at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial was dedicated on May 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 1962 to honor all those who died during the attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Commemorative Pistol: <\/em><\/strong>Engravings commemorate the USS Oklahoma which served in World War I and protected allied convoys across the Atlantic.&nbsp; During the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese torpedo bomber airplanes hit the Oklahoma\u2019s hull causing&nbsp;it to capsize.&nbsp; A total of 429 crew died as a result, others jumped to safety, were rescued through hatches or from drilling holes in the side of the hull.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sig Sauer subsequently released a video highlighting the pistols\u2019 craftsmanship:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZSTgt2ev25c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Sig Sauer chief marketing officer and executive vice president Tom Taylor commented on the pistols and decision to give the proceeds to charity to continue to helping World War II veterans:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>It was truly an honor to create these custom pistols and we are humbled to have the opportunity to partner with the Best Defense Foundation to salute these men and women of the greatest generation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Taylor added, \u201cThe foundation is providing any World War II veteran that wants a measure of closure the opportunity to return to their battlefield and we hope these pistols will bring recognition to their efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sig Sauer built three special 1911 pistols to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and is donating the proceeds from the firearms to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}