patentmike
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The Department of Homeland Security is picking a new pistol, let's see if we can predict the outcome, which would you pick and why:
Heckler & Koch,
Glock,
Beretta,
Smith & Wesson,
Sig.
I'd go for the SW99 for two simple reasons. 1. S&W is the only real American company in the running; and 2. the SW99 could fulfill any mission, large .45, or small 9mm, .40. Training would be standard for all three.
The SW99 .45 happens to fit me pretty well too.
http://www.govexec.com/featrues/0604-15/0604-15s1.htm
...Since February, the world's top gun makers have been in a shootout for the right to sell handguns to ICE. In August, after extensive testing at federal armories in Pennsylvania and Georgia, ICE will pick one or more of them to arm its more than 12,000 law enforcement officers. In a novel arrangement, other agencies in the department also will be allowed to buy pistols through the ICE contract. Up to 45,000 gun carriers could get new weapons.
"This is the largest pistol procurement in the history of U.S. law enforcement," says Wayne Weber, a manager with the German firearms giant Heckler & Koch, one of the top-tier firms competing for the five-year, $25 million contract. Besides H&K, Austrian gun manufacturer Glock, Italy's Beretta, and two American-based manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and SigArms Inc., acknowledge vying for the pact....
Heckler & Koch,
Glock,
Beretta,
Smith & Wesson,
Sig.
I'd go for the SW99 for two simple reasons. 1. S&W is the only real American company in the running; and 2. the SW99 could fulfill any mission, large .45, or small 9mm, .40. Training would be standard for all three.
The SW99 .45 happens to fit me pretty well too.
http://www.govexec.com/featrues/0604-15/0604-15s1.htm
...Since February, the world's top gun makers have been in a shootout for the right to sell handguns to ICE. In August, after extensive testing at federal armories in Pennsylvania and Georgia, ICE will pick one or more of them to arm its more than 12,000 law enforcement officers. In a novel arrangement, other agencies in the department also will be allowed to buy pistols through the ICE contract. Up to 45,000 gun carriers could get new weapons.
"This is the largest pistol procurement in the history of U.S. law enforcement," says Wayne Weber, a manager with the German firearms giant Heckler & Koch, one of the top-tier firms competing for the five-year, $25 million contract. Besides H&K, Austrian gun manufacturer Glock, Italy's Beretta, and two American-based manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and SigArms Inc., acknowledge vying for the pact....
