Madison, WI PD changing weapons due to ammo costs!

[wlewisiii]

Sorry to disappoint you, but we do have extremely professional police here. If you care to know what they are authorized, please look up thread.

 

[jackpinesavages]

"My point was that the numbers can be whatever you make of it. Knowing very well how government procurement works (I don't buy their ammo, but I do buy computers for local law enforcement), I know that most costs can be whatever you want. If they want to use "saving money" on ammo as the reason for this they'll quote the highest price box of whatever they're using now vs the lowest priced box of whatever they want to switch to."


Thanks for making my point. The numbers being used for LE Ammo costs are unfamiliar to you.

a.)Costs of equipment being purchased all depend on who it is the Dept. which has been tasked with the research and procurement, for which project. No, not all governemnt and/or Law Enforcement agencies just spend the taxpayer's monies without respect to the source of the money: tax payers. It is unfortunate that you are familiar with that aspect of an agency in buying computer equipment. However, to apply the logic of that agency's computer buying to ammo. costs for duty weapons is without a foundation for debate.

b.) Your ammo. examples stated have nothing to do with LE duty carry, LE purchase prices when buying in extraordinary bulk, nor are they close to type or brand names of quality duty worthy ammo..

c.) Absolutely, I agree; numbers don't lie, people lie. However, if you are unfamiliar with LE Ammo. purchasing, nor even remotely have an idea of which ammo. is used please refrain from making statements without foundation that also insinuate that all LE agencies are wasteful. That crap gets really old-if you want to villify the spending habits of LE agencies take it to an anti-LE website.

 

[ugaarguy]

That shares all the same holsters w someone setup for small framed glocks.

I'm sorry, but that's not true. Some Glock 9mm/ .40 SW / .357 SIG leather holsters will stretch to fit the .45 GAP Glocks, but not all 9mm/ .40 SW/ .357 SIG Glock holsters will fit their .45 GAP counterparts. The GAP pistols have wider slides, so the dimensions are not the same. This is a particularly important issue for LE because they use retention holsters that are very precisely fitted to the pistol to work properly. Even the Blackhawk Serpa is different between them.