Posted January 31, 2018 11:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The Department of Defense’s decision to go with Sig’s P320 over Glock’s offering has been controversial, to say the least. Glock is still convinced it had the best pistol for the job and the company feels like it got screwed on the deal. None of this was helped by the news breaking that the P320 could fire if dropped in a certain manner, to be sure.

Now, a new report reveals some significant problems with the M17 and M18 pistols the military currently has, which probably is making Glock feel pretty good about themselves at the moment.

The U.S. Army’s decision to select two versions of Sig Sauer’s 9mm P320 pistol as the new standard sidearms across the service was not without controversy, including a formal protest by competing gun maker Glock, which claimed the service didn’t complete certain critical tests. The Pentagon recently released a report that shows testing of the M17 and M18 handguns exposed a number of significant and persistent deficiencies, including firing accidentally if a shooter dropped the gun, ejecting live ammunition, and low reliability with traditional “ball” cartridges with bullets enclosed inside a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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