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posted by janrinok on Monday January 23 2017, @09:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the next-time-it-will-be-a-light-sabre dept.

The U.S. Army will likely replace its standard-issue sidearm with a Sig Sauer P320 pistol (with undisclosed modifications):

After a long and much-criticized search, the US Army has chosen Sig Sauer to produce its next generation of handgun, eventually replacing the current standard issue sidearm, the Beretta M9 pistol. "Following a thorough operational test, fielding of the modular handgun is expected to begin in 2017," the Army said in a statement announcing the decision Thursday.

The M9's three decades of service since 1985 has occasionally made it the subject of derision among members of the armed forces. "The joke that we had in the military was that sometimes the most effective use of an M9 is to simply throw it at your adversary," Sen. Joni Ernst, a former officer in the Iowa Army National Guard, said last week during the confirmation hearings for Ret. Marine Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense. [...] "The Army's effort to buy a new handgun has already taken 10 years and produced nothing but a more than 350-page requirements document micromanaging extremely small unimportant details," Senate Armed Services committee chairman John McCain wrote in a 2015 report on the program's problems.

The Army awarded Sig Sauer Inc. with a $580,217,000 contract. Also at Washington Post, Popular Mechanics, and RT.

More about the Modular Handgun System.


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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @09:57PM (#457815)

    Is headquartered in Germany. What happened to "made in USA"?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 23 2017, @10:02PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday January 23 2017, @10:02PM (#457820) Journal

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer [wikipedia.org]

    Founded Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    Headquarters Newington, New Hampshire, United States

    SIG Sauer GmbH is a firearms manufacturer and importer. A partnership between Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft of Switzerland and Sauer & Sohn of Germany, it is the subsidiary of Lüke & Ortmeier Gruppe (L&O Holding), which also owns Swiss Arms AG. Initially SIG Sauer Inc was established in 1985 with the name Sigarms (until October 2007) to import and distribute SIG firearms into the United States. Since 2000 SIG Sauer Inc has been organizationally separate from manufacturer SIG Sauer GmbH.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by donkeyhotay on Monday January 23 2017, @10:06PM

    by donkeyhotay (2540) on Monday January 23 2017, @10:06PM (#457822)

    It is made in the USA.

  • (Score: 2, Troll) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 23 2017, @10:14PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday January 23 2017, @10:14PM (#457825)

    Is headquartered in Germany. What happened to "made in USA"?

    When a US manufacturer steps up to the plate and delivers a quality product at a competitive price, they can win the contract. Hell, the bidding process is already slanted heavily in their favor as well as in the favor of minority and female owned businesses. The fact that SigSauer is winning this contract is a clear condemnation of the domestic firearms industry's ability to compete on the global scene.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday January 23 2017, @10:34PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Monday January 23 2017, @10:34PM (#457834) Journal

      Yes, you'd think the gun crazy Americans would be able to make the best guns.
      Go murica! Go copitalism!

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      • (Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @11:21PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 23 2017, @11:21PM (#457854)

        American guns make the best penis enhancers in the world. Apparently, they don't make the best hand guns in the world.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:17AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:17AM (#458025)

          American guns make the best penis SUBSTITUTES in the world.

          FTFY

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @08:10PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @08:10PM (#458237)

            What are you saying? Women are buying handguns for masturbatory purposes?

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @09:33PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @09:33PM (#458276)

              I'd watch that video.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:37AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @09:37AM (#458438)

    Here in the UK, the British Army adopted the Glock 17 a few years ago -- they're manufactured in Austria. [bbc.co.uk]

    As far as I know, their L85 rifles are also manufactured abroad these days.

    Wonder why the Glock won it for the British Army but not for the U.S. Army.