Posted on 12/12/2017 9:57:33 AM PST by PROCON
The U.S. Army’s full-size XM17 MHS. Sig Sauer plans to sell a version of this pistol on the commercial market. (101st Airborne Division photo)
A commercial version of the U.S. Army’s newest service pistol, the M17, will be sold by Sig Sauer starting next year, Military.com reported.
“We are planning to do a limited release of about 5,000 of the Army variant of the M17 for the commercial market,” Tom Taylor, Sig Sauer’s chief marketing officer and executive vice president for commercial sales, told Military.com. “The timing is not finalized yet, but it looks to be late spring.”
Taylor told Military.com that the commercial version will be almost identical to the Army’s Modular Handgun System, except it won’t have an anti-tamper mechanism for the striker action and it won’t have special coatings that keep the internal parts lubricated.
While the Army’s version has a frame-mounted thumb safety, the commercial version will have an option of whether or not to have it.
Taylor told Military.com that the price of the commercial version of the pistol is not yet known.
In January, the United States Army chose the Sig Sauer P320 handgun for the Modular Handgun System to replace the Beretta M9 pistol.
Sig Sauer was awarded a $580 million contract for the service pistol and chosen over Glock, Inc.; FN America and Beretta USA.
The contract covers 10 years of procurement to supply the Army with the M17 and M18 versions of the pistol.
The Army first announced the competition for the MHS back in 2011, but because of several delays, the most recent solicitation deadline was February 2016. It launched its MHS competition in August 2015 to replace the M9 Beretta, which was the service’s pistol of choice for 30 years.
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I’ve got the P320RX, full size.
It’s wonderful....but did need trigger work to lighten it up from 7+ to about 5.5 lbs.
(grayguns.com)
Pretty well peppered a 5” target at 15 yds. yesterday.
I would love to own a Sig-Sauer. But any gun you have to pay for with a second mortgage ain’t for me. Now a arex rex-1? Definitely a possibility.
P226 Legion here, trigger seems fine out of the box.
Which Kalifornia citizens can only gaze at through the glass counters of free states.
My guess is that a “limited edition” one of the first 5,000 will carry a price tag in $750 nose-bleed territory.
No special coatings? That’s not the same!
Oh ya!
My P220 Carry SAO trigger is about 4.4.
I just had to try the RX and love it.
Especially since I found a great IWB for it.
(gunnersalley.com)
From of all the photos, it appears to be a slimy bakalite.
Something about it. It looks gross.
Lose that nickel plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.
>>it won’t have special coatings that keep the internal parts lubricated.
There is a business opportunity for someone to replicate that on the aftermarket, I would think.
How much is your life worth?
Sig-Sauers are the only gun that will save your life? I carry a used S&W 6946. Torn down and inspected by me, kept in good repair with good ammo. Quality doesn’t have to be super expensive. Fer Gawds sake, it’s not like I’m carryin’ a hi-point.
CC
Bruce’s shop did work on my early production P320. Very pleased with the 4.0 lb trigger and sights. They set it up as a production division gun. Unfortunately, although I like it, I still prefer my stainless frame 226 with Grayguns competition spring kit and trigger with overtravel stop.
Are you a sigforum member? Only ask because that’s where Bruce gets the majority of his business, and it is without a doubt the finest firearms forum on the web.
Took a couple classes from Bruce and Jerry Jones several years ago; best money I ever spent on firearms.
Pentagon perfumed princes should be required to buy American.
LOL!
Ok, fair enough, FRIEND.
I believe you are seeing the yet to be removed shipping grease.
Since the German govt caught Sig funneling SP2022’s through the US to a South American country (can’t remember which), the krauts clamped down, so pretty much all Sig production is in the US now. I have read there is now only a fraction of the workforce at the old Eckenforde plant in Germany.
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