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US Secret Service switching to 9mm Glock pistols
abcnews.go.com ^ | Aug. 1, 2019 | CHRIS FRANCESCANI

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 9mm; banglist; glock; secretservice; usss
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To: real saxophonist

They go through schools...Once.


61 posted on 08/02/2019 6:01:18 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: NFHale

62 posted on 08/02/2019 6:01:23 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: marktwain
To be read in your best Arnold Scwartznegger voice...

Beautiful! I knew that line needed something lol.

63 posted on 08/02/2019 6:01:51 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: EEGator

They’re probably getting them at law enforcement prices of between 350-450


64 posted on 08/02/2019 6:02:35 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: cuban leaf

I’m 45 free. 9mm and 38/357mag only with a smattering of 22 for good measure.


65 posted on 08/02/2019 6:03:10 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Actually, the .357 Sig is based on the 10mm,not the .40 S&W.
The 10mm case has thicker walls to handle the increased pressure.


66 posted on 08/02/2019 6:04:59 AM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: real saxophonist

You can’t understand why people like beauty?


67 posted on 08/02/2019 6:05:31 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: PROCON

My flight deck gun is a .40 H&K gov’t issue.


68 posted on 08/02/2019 6:06:24 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: rlmorel

Had some 45’s and they aren’t fun. 357mag is fun. The recoil on .45 comes from the slide cycling not the explosion. Fair amount of muzzle flip.


69 posted on 08/02/2019 6:07:12 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

More bullets.


70 posted on 08/02/2019 6:08:31 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Accidental discharge can put a crimp in your sex life too


71 posted on 08/02/2019 6:09:51 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: TexasGator

Of course I like beauty. But I don’t get paying $1000 for a gun (cough1911), another $1000 to make it work, and then putting it in a safe where no one sees its beauty.


72 posted on 08/02/2019 6:10:31 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I know...it is like using a hammer that is bigger than needed for the job!

A stilletto can kill a person just as well as a Bowie Knife, but I Bowie Knife will scare them off far more effectively...:)


73 posted on 08/02/2019 6:13:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: PROCON
I'm surprised no one's posted this yet:

Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol

74 posted on 08/02/2019 6:14:38 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Now yer talkin’ the really big guns!


75 posted on 08/02/2019 6:16:08 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: EEGator

The P320 is around the same price. I like them better than any Glock I have fired. I assume they will buy Glocks with real night sights instead of the standard plastic ones?


76 posted on 08/02/2019 6:16:08 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Obadiah
Glock what?

Glock 26, 43, 17, 34?

(Yeah, I didn’t read the article.)


Since they're law enforcement, why not the 18?

https://youtu.be/L_D9weITWDI?t=88
77 posted on 08/02/2019 6:16:21 AM PDT by Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues
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To: LumberJack53213
Never understood the fascination with Glock, the seem rather ugly and expensive

I was of the same mind. Every Glock I held, never fit my hand. UNTIL, the G17 Gen 4. I love it.

78 posted on 08/02/2019 6:17:19 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says)
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To: gundog

You must be one of those .257 Roberts guys, amirite?


79 posted on 08/02/2019 6:18:28 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Heh. Right now all I have is .22, 7.6x50, 30.06, .380 and a short barrel shotgun. And with the exception of the .22 I’ve probably put 60 rounds through the lot of them over the last 20 years. Guns bore me. They are just tools. I pull the out like I pull out my miter saw - only when I need them.


80 posted on 08/02/2019 6:18:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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