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To: struwwelpeter
LOL
My son, USAC, ditched his pistol - carried a 12GA Mossberg shotgun as backup for room cleaning duties.

The magazines are real POS for the current issue M9.

Low bid wins, the GI loses.
48 posted on 09/25/2006 11:27:05 AM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ASOC
The magazines are real POS for the current issue M9.

That's what I have heard from several sources who should know. The Beretta 92 variants are all excellent, reliable handguns even though I don't especially care for the 9mm NATO chambering, but no semiauto weapon is worth a tinker's dam without a top quality magazine. As I understand it, the military procurement bureaucracy purchased aftermarket replacement magazines for the M9 that are junk.

Original equipment Mec-Gar magazines that come in Beretta pistols are good quality mags, and the replacement magazines should have been bought from the same source. I have replaced the cheap aftermarket magazines in my 1911 pistols with Wilson Combat magazines, and since changing over my guns have never failed to function reliably every time I pull the trigger.

135 posted on 09/28/2006 11:40:51 AM PDT by epow
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