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Marines Choose 9mm Glock 19 OVER .45 ACP 1911 for Special Operators
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<blockquote data-quote="ldp4570" data-source="post: 2914443" data-attributes="member: 5168"><p>Regardless the cost of ammo, it doesn't cost the military a lot to produce small arms, a lot of this is due more to politic's than cost or logistics. The US military still lists over 20 different handgun cartridges on the books that are still being manufactured an stored. Everything from .22 short up to .45ACP. Its probably more to the tune of someone in congress or at the Pentagon that's getting their pockets lined by Glock to make sure it gets chosen over the 1911. The same happened with the P226 and 92FS. The final straw for SIG failing to get the contract was that Beretta already had a plant in the USA an SIG didn't. Based on actual price the SIG won the contract, but due to certain political issues between the US an Italy the Beretta was going to win no matter how bad it might fail. There were certain consessions that needed to be made over bases in Italy, and that was part of the deal. Granted the Beretta was an still is a good pistol, just as the SIG P226 is a good pistol, but you also ha ve to look at the consessions that we made to SIG to keep them from making a big stink over the whole thing, we also purchased a very large quantity of SIG P228's to be utilized by US Army investigators an chopper pilots, these were also given to the Air Force an Coast guard who later upgraded to the P229. Not everything will be known about the change from the 1911 to the M9, but NATO never was a big concern. Remember we are the largest member by size an money, and always made NATO change to us not to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ldp4570, post: 2914443, member: 5168"] Regardless the cost of ammo, it doesn't cost the military a lot to produce small arms, a lot of this is due more to politic's than cost or logistics. The US military still lists over 20 different handgun cartridges on the books that are still being manufactured an stored. Everything from .22 short up to .45ACP. Its probably more to the tune of someone in congress or at the Pentagon that's getting their pockets lined by Glock to make sure it gets chosen over the 1911. The same happened with the P226 and 92FS. The final straw for SIG failing to get the contract was that Beretta already had a plant in the USA an SIG didn't. Based on actual price the SIG won the contract, but due to certain political issues between the US an Italy the Beretta was going to win no matter how bad it might fail. There were certain consessions that needed to be made over bases in Italy, and that was part of the deal. Granted the Beretta was an still is a good pistol, just as the SIG P226 is a good pistol, but you also ha ve to look at the consessions that we made to SIG to keep them from making a big stink over the whole thing, we also purchased a very large quantity of SIG P228's to be utilized by US Army investigators an chopper pilots, these were also given to the Air Force an Coast guard who later upgraded to the P229. Not everything will be known about the change from the 1911 to the M9, but NATO never was a big concern. Remember we are the largest member by size an money, and always made NATO change to us not to them. [/QUOTE]
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