US Secret Service switching to 9mm Glock pistols

abcnews.go.com ^ | Aug. 1, 2019 | CHRIS FRANCESCANI

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

They go through schools...Once.

[gundog]

[Fightin Whitey]

To be read in your best Arnold Scwartznegger voice...

Beautiful! I knew that line needed something lol.

[mrmeyer]

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

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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

[catman67]

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.

[TexasGator]

You can’t understand why people like beauty?

[SkyDancer]

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

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

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.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

More bullets.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Accidental discharge can put a crimp in your sex life too

[real saxophonist]

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.

[rlmorel]

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...:)

[real saxophonist]

I'm surprised no one's posted this yet:

Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol

[Fightin Whitey]

Now yer talkin’ the really big guns!

[jospehm20]

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?

[Subcutaneous Fishstick Blues]

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

[Puppage]

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.

[Freedom4US]

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

[cuban leaf]

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.