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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 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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