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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, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:50AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:50AM (#457917) Journal

    You need a microscope to see you penis, don't you? And it's weird for an agnostic to be talking about meeting with the devil or God (who, if we're talking Yahweh here, is arguably the worse option).

    No one cares about'cher stupid war stories, Runaway. We don't think your elementary understanding of bullet physics makes you some kind of grizzled, gritty badass either; we think it makes you some sort of weirdo weapons otaku who has no real life experience with anything else.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:07AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:07AM (#457920) Journal

    *yawn*

    Is that a pacifist trying to impress me with her lack of knowledge? She claims not to care, but she went to all the trouble to post an unintelligible rant about me. I think she's infatuated with me! Hoplophobes - they're all the same.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:22AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:22AM (#457991) Journal

      Pacifist...that's funny. Did you know girls get up to some of the same kind of physical bullying boys do? And did you know that the solution is the same in both cases? I was a "pacifist," as you put it, until 8th grade. Then I decided I'd had enough, and one day i slammed one of my tormentor's heads into a locker, over and over and over again. Yes, there was blood. Yes, there were stitches. Did I get suspended? Hell yes. Did the bullying stop? Hell yes, at least the direct stuff. Violence sometimes *is* the answer; your problem is you think it's a sledgehammer when it's a scalpel.

      Also? You aren't some kind of brave hero for getting sent out to be cannon fodder in some meaningless war you didn't even half understand. How old are you, 60? That would make you a Viet Nam vet at the earliest; you're no World War II hero. That was the last war we had any fucking business fighting.

      You're not some paragon of heroic manly virtue; you're a poor, manipulated fool with a heart full of scars and a brain full of nightmares, throw into Hell's meatgrinder by a bunch of amoral Strangelovian cranks who didn't even know you existed other than as an anonymous warm body with a gun. Wake up.

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:35AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:35AM (#457993) Journal

        Ho-hum.

        So, you're a VIOLENT pacifist. No, there is not necessarily a contradiction there. I understand perfectly - or maybe imperfectly.

        I'm glad that we can agree that the only way to deal with a bully is to beat the pulp out of him. Bullies don't mind pain, until it becomes his/her own pain. Then, pain becomes an entirely different issue.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:54AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:54AM (#457998) Journal

          Define "violent pacifist." If you mean "someone who uses violence sparingly and only as a last resort when all other methods have failed," I happily accept the label...although you may find that this is known to the rest of the world as "mature, sane, rational human being."

          You are correct that bullies only understand pain; why this is, I don't know, but I get the impression that many of them have some level of antisocial personality disorder. There are probably at least a handful of etiologies for bullying, but when it's you on the receiving end, at least in the moment, you don't particularly care. What is this "entirely different issue" though? Are you saying that to a hardcore bully, pain simply becomes a sort of social currency, a method of imposing one's will?

          And I just love how you're trying to ignore having the reality of your "service" pointed out to you. It's fairly obvious that one hit home. Sorry; I'm not one to pull my punches since, as just mentioned, the age of 13.

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          • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:43AM

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:43AM (#458037) Journal

            Pain inflicted on a victim is entirely different from pain experienced - to the bully, pain becomes something entirely different when he is the one suffering the pain.

            The violent pacifist? I remember some liberal type people from my youth, who thought it was a good thing to bomb civilian targets in the US to protest things like the Vietnam War. See Patty Hearst - the same liberal who runs Hearst news today. At least in name, she runs it. I suspect that she makes a lot of actual decisions, but I can't say for sure.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:14PM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:14PM (#458151) Journal

              Ah, so "social currency and a way of imposing one's will then." A tool in the toolbox, as it were? Gods, you're transparent.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @10:03PM (#458287)

        I'm more interested that he claims there is a race of people in the Philippines that are 7'10" and over yet nobody has documented them.

        • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:32AM

          by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday January 25 2017, @08:32AM (#458424) Journal

          While Filipinos are not all tiny (my brother in law is 6'something), the tallest known Filipino is 7'3'' [wikipedia.org]. Although I don't think the word "race" applies in this context.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:57AM (#457937)

    Sup cunt who is opposed to men having female children as brides.

    Trump just defunded abortion.
    That's revenge for your cunt marches the day before.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @06:42AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 24 2017, @06:42AM (#457976) Journal

      Oh hi, Mikee. Don't worry, I very likely won't need one. Lesbian or not I've taken precautions. Your orange-haired buddy is no Yahweh-supporter either; expect him to be gone in short order, say 1-2 years maximum.

      Are you ever gonna make good on all those death threats you keep making? :) I'm right here waiting for you.

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