Looking for new Duty Weapon hopefully a 1911

[The Lone Haranguer]

With a 15-round magazine limit, consider the Glock 19. It is right at the limit (the G17 and M&P are 17), is large enough to shoot well, but is compact enough that you can carry the same gun off duty (if suggested or mandated by your agency).

 

[docnyt]

Why not just buy a Beretta M9 and be done with it?

 

[CZF]

If I couldn't carry a P-01/P-06 or P-07 Duty, I'd go with the approved S&W.

An M&P Compact.



If you watch the shooting shows, many Instructors are using M&Ps
now.


I know some very savvy Glock die-hards that I swore would be burried with a Glock, that have switched to the M&P.


They blow Glocks right out of the water.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

If I had to buy my own duty weapon, I'd get a refurbed Glock. I certainly wouldn't spend a pile of bucks on a handgun that it only gonna get knocked into every door frame in the PD and get a seat belt buckle raked down the side every time you buckle up in a car.

 

[Akeva41]

I purchased an XD-9. It is a great weapon and meets required specs. Whiskey11 was correct. It is difficult and will be even more to get a job in law enforcement with the cut backs coming down the pipe. The Board has not put any magazine capacity limits. It only states the magazine can not extend appreciably below the mag well. I think they just wanted to stop anyone from trying to sneak in a Promag 30 rounder.

 

[slicksleeve]

I know it seems odd to some, providing your own firearm for police work, but I like the idea. Where I work we are all issued the same pistol. I see a lot of potiential from the list of brands you can buy from. If I worked for a place like that, I think I would qualify with a different pistol every year, just to break monotony.

 

[Cards81fan]

An XD has some similarities, such as the grip safety, and a technically a single action trigger (though it is disguised as one of those Safe Action type ). And the triggers can be worked to be incredibly light and smooth. I think you made a great choice! I own an XD myself.

The downside is that Springfield, while trying to improve in this area (even have some sort of Armorer school now I believe), does not have the support for LE that Glock, Sig, Beretta, and S&W do.

Beretta, Sig, Smith & Wesson, and Ruger have metal-framed pistols which to some, may feel better and more "1911-like" in hand even in spite of the controls and other ergonomics. YMMV