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Thousands of pistol designs and the military chooses the one with unintentional discharge issues. can't wait to see what blue on blue incident occurs from hundreds of these things being carried around at once.
Not to mention they are replacing the Beretta m9, possibly the safest firearm ever made with something that shoots you if you sneeze too hard.
Isn't the Beretta M9 also just a reliable sidearm? It replaced the 1911 for a reason and has been in use for 40 years.
It's incredibly reliable and easy to maintain. I picked up a used civilian model (92fs) well over a decade and shoot with it often, it'll probably outlast me.
The only real complaint that anyone really has with the model is that it's larger and heavier than most of your newer pieces, which can make it more difficult to conceal and carry. That, and it's difficult to mount any kind of site to it.
Both of these complaints are mainly leveled by chuds who have fantasies about vigilante justice. Hand guns don't need sites, that's a skill issue....get good. And size and weight don't really factor into a service sidearm, if anything they just help with recoil and accuracy.
All the complaints the military levied at the M9 only pertained to the og model. Theres newer models of the M9 that were modular, in NATO caliber, and had rails.
If I were guessing the only reason they changed is because they wanted new Models of M9 and the purchasing office said you already have M9 at home...... Yeah they're 30 years old, but they still work and sidearms are mostly decorative in actual combat scenarios.
It kinda made sense since the M9s that were in stock were getting old, so they wanted to take the opportunity to upgrade instead of just restocking the same thing.
...but then fucky shit happened around the trials for picking the next standard sidearm. Baretta submitted an M9A2 with all the features the Army wanted and didn't even get considered. I STG in twenty years we're gonna learn that somebody somewhere got a kickback.
I wish a very shoot your dick off to some dipshit boot who's cruising around dc to try and pick up an underage girl with his hellcat.
this will stop the sandwich tossers
yes, more guns are always the solution!
Just one more ~~lane~~ gun, bro!
Shooting my own cock off to own the libs
Oh... time for an "early retirement medical discharge with partial/full disability rating" toy!
Sigma balls