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If the M18 was an aircraft with this kind of record it would have been grounded long ago. If guns were under the regulation of the CPSC the P320 would have been recalled long ago. Wait! There's more: "In April 2022, a senior Airman on Tinker Air Force base in Oklahoma told investigators that...

Any of the other guns in the MHS trials would have been a safer/better choice. Coulda, woulda, shoulda...

I'm sooo old I was issued one of these (USAF match pistol). Mine was made by Remington and was older than I was at the time. They could go off if dropped just right with a round in the chamber.

Or miss me yet?

How about me?

Miss me yet?

The thumb safety keeps the trigger from moving, it does not block the striker from moving. The Army carries on safe, the USAF only uses the safety when loading/unloading at the clearing barrel, carries off safe. The Army did have a UID when an M17 on safe in the holster was bumped and it went...

They are still around. The last new M9s were delivered to DOD in 2021, four years safter the M17/18 contract in 2017. When the M18 was paused by the USAF last week, there was an E-6 armed with an M9 on the local base. So, some are still around, and some are still qualified to carry them. But it...

The M17/18 contract was in 2017 with first batch to be delivered by 2022. The drop safety issue was found and corrected before the militray guns were issued. It went viral when people found out the civilian P320s had the same issue and had not been fixed. SIG's voluntary upgrade for them came...

An old Ruger Speed Six 150 series. Six for sure. ;)

This is interesting. SIG has lost 2 cases in court and is appealing. They won and settled others. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps have not "grounded" the M17/18 despite several accidents with injuries. They have passed (and continue to pass) DOD (regular LAT/lot acceptance testing), and CA DOJ...

Most of the time a gun is used defensively (>90% depending on the study) it is not even fired. The stats for civilians and cops are all over the place when it comes to how many rounds at what distances and how many hits are made when they are fired. NYPD has ranged from 4-8 shots per incident...

An FCU and grip module was NOT a requirement of the MHS. That was NOT how they defined "modular". The Glock met the modular requirement as defined without either and was one of the finalists. The Glock was not selected because it cost over $100 million more than the SIG, NOT because it was not...

In 2017 the USAF went SIG M18. Soon after AFOSI passed on them and got Glock 19/26s. That's called a hint. In 2021 the DOD awarded Glock a $15 million contract for about 9,000 new Glocks. Mostly G19s (Gen 3,4,5, w and w/o threaded bbls and MOS). That's another hint. In 2018 the TAF (Turkish Air...

Glock has had problems from time to time too. In the late 80s/early 90s they were slam firing and going full auto when a round was chambered. Others went off when hit. Others went off when dropped. Some had the slides pop off the guns when flipped like a Frisbee (that during DEA testing). All...