Posted on 08/02/2019 5:19:54 AM PDT by PROCON
The United States Secret Service is moving forward with plans to outfit its agents with Glock 9 millimeter (mm) pistols to replace the agency's existing Sig Sauer .357-caliber duty weapons -- part of a larger move among U.S. law enforcement agencies towards the lighter, more efficient guns.
“The Secret Service has been one of the few agencies that has maintained Sig Sauer as a permanent duty weapon for more than 20 years,” said Donald J. Mihalek, a retired senior Secret Service agent and ABC News contributor.
The Secret Service and Glock declined to comment on the move, but a federal official with direct knowledge of the deal confirmed the agency's plan to switch to the Glock 9 mm pistols. Details of the new deal were recently posted on fedbizops.gov, the federal government's website for posting procurement opportunities above $25,000 for private sector companies.
The Secret Service -- whose primary mission is to protect presidents, vice-presidents and their families -- employs about 3,200 special agents, 1,300 uniformed officers and more than 2,000 other support personnel, according to its website.
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The round is called the .357 Sig It’s a rimless made for autoloading (er.. semi-auto loading)
Glock will be easier to control for all the female agents they decided make wonderful bodyguards
To be read in your best Arnold Scwartznegger voice...
I found that a strange adjective to describe a handgun.
Some people just like to collect...:)
Personally, I have a 9mm (can’t beat the price to practice with, and easy to carry) but when I get enough money, I am getting a .45.
Someday...:)
...is Norris material.
‘Negligent’ discharge.
Strange adjective...You mean using the word “efficient”?
If you thought that strange, so, so did I.
Small hands?
Why is the USSS hiring shrimps?! Of either sex??
I get that, and that's fine. I think most collectors are not serious carriers, though.
But everybody should have their 'Barbeque gun'! 8~)
They jam when “limp wristed.”
But....but....
Unless the characteristics of the 9mm are changed, I have questions.
1. 9mm tend to go thru targets creating collateral damage.
2. 9mm do not have the stopping power of a .45 cal etc.
Now if these 2 issues are fixed with this change, sounds good to me. However, I didn’t see stopping power and collateral damage as issues in the change.
Glock what?
Glock 26, 43, 17, 34?
(Yeah, I didn’t read the article.)
$500 plus accessories is pretty reasonable. Every one I’ve had needed trigger work.
Never had a jam or misfeed in 10 years.
LOL, even men who might be shrimps in stature wouldn’t be willing to surrender their “man card” by complaining about the grip size or recoil of a handgun!
This was one of the battles the military went through a few years back when it went to a 9mm sidearm. That was a mistake, as they found out in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I have a 19 and a 34. Same results.
Then I realized that kind of "accidental discharge" usually happens only to those old enough or careless enough to experience all kinds of accidental discharges...at which point I sold my boat, and bought more Glocks.
I've used a number of different shapes and sizes for daily carry, but the bigger Glocks go with me, in a chest holster, when I head into the hills, where you might encounter two- and four-legged predators.
Dig the weight, feel, reliability, accuracy.
The glock. 357 is not the magnum. The. 357 is just a necked down 40.
357 is a necked down 40. Nothing like the old 357mag.
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