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Old 12-24-2012, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by John3200 View Post
Not true. The Sig Sauer P226 tied the Beretta M92 in the trials. The only reason the M92 was selected in the end was some priceing voodoo. Beretta had a lower price but also included less with the gun than the Sig Sauer bid. Both guns obviously meet the safety requirements of the trials.
The Beretta 9s, the M9, and the M9a1 do not have safeties like a traditional thumb safety....they have decockers which then disable the triggerto hammer mechanism.

Sig has a decocker, but nothing is disabled, the pistol then goes to D/A.
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