To: R. Scott
Was Carter President when the 9MM Beretta was procured as the official sidearm for the militay?
I was watching an Iraq war program and a GI was telling how he used all three mags of his Beretta to stop the bad guy. Good reason they are going back to the 40 or 45 forgot which..
35 posted on
06/02/2006 3:24:55 AM PDT by
tiger-one
(The night has a thousand eyes)
To: tiger-one
That's because they are not allowed to used hollow point bullets, they're illegal in warfare per the Geneva convention (I think that's the right one). That is one of the reason's that the M14 has had a resurgence in use in the military.
50 posted on
06/02/2006 5:56:42 AM PDT by
looscnnn
("Olestra (Olean) applications causes memory leaks" PC Confusious)
To: tiger-one
"Was Carter President when the 9MM Beretta was procured as the official sidearm for the militay? I was watching an Iraq war program and a GI was telling how he used all three mags of his Beretta to stop the bad guy. Good reason they are going back to the 40 or 45 forgot which.."
Try Reagan, not that the President has/had anything to do with that decision. Also that "GI"s shooting abililty must have really sucked that it took 45 hits to down the Bad Guy.
62 posted on
06/02/2006 9:18:31 AM PDT by
Trinity5
To: tiger-one
We went to the 9mm a couple years before I retired – the early 80s, so it may well have been Reagan.
72 posted on
06/02/2006 1:26:40 PM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: tiger-one
Was Carter President when the 9MM Beretta was procured as the official sidearm for the militay?No, it was Reagan.
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