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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They go through schools...Once.
Beautiful! I knew that line needed something lol.
They’re probably getting them at law enforcement prices of between 350-450
I’m 45 free. 9mm and 38/357mag only with a smattering of 22 for good measure.
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.
You can’t understand why people like beauty?
My flight deck gun is a .40 H&K gov’t issue.
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.
More bullets.
Accidental discharge can put a crimp in your sex life too
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.
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...:)
Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol
Now yer talkin’ the really big guns!
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?
I was of the same mind. Every Glock I held, never fit my hand. UNTIL, the G17 Gen 4. I love it.
You must be one of those .257 Roberts guys, amirite?
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.
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