It makes no sense to me for our boys to carry German pistols. We need only to update the 1911 and keep that trigger like it is. Just adapt them to a double-stack mag holding 15 rounds and thread the muzzle to accept stuff. That’s ALL that needs doing, and it’d be hundreds of millions cheaper. Also, I prefer 9mm to .45. More velocity, cheaper rounds, more bullets in the same amount of mag space, reduced muzzle flip, faster follow ups, hollows open up to .452” upon contact, ammo’s lighter, I can go on all day about why the 9mm is superior, but the best thing about the 1911 and where it truly rises above other pistols is that sweet, single-action trigger.
If you want 9mm and a single action trigger, get a Browning Hi-Power.
SIG SAUER to Produce All Guns in US by 2015
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/06/foghorn/sig-sauer-produce-guns-us-2015/
The main problem with 9mm is that the military is not allowed to use hollow points in combat, just FMJ which has much less stopping power.
One solution is to just abolish our being subject to that provision (is it Geneva Convention or some other treaty?)
but 7.62X39 in is OK?