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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: 2) by fishybell on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:22AM

    by fishybell (3156) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:22AM (#457905)

    I bought my XD 45 for exactly the reasons you stated.

    Unfortunately the product didn't live up to the expectations. The grip safety especially only worked well for certain sizes and/or shapes of hands, which mine was clearly not one of. I had to adjust my grip for the gun — not insubstantially, but terribly substantially — to ensure the safety was disengaged.

    The problem was that although I had a firm grip on the grip, and fully engaged at the top (the hinge-point of the lever-style safety), my hand didn't fully grip at the middle all of the time. I had to push forward my thumb to disengage the safety.

    In the end, it ended up being too much of a pain-in-the-ass and I sold it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:32PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:32PM (#458163)

    Are your hands small? That's really odd.