I was reading an article while waiting in my Dr.’s office a few days ago. It was about the Beretta M9 magazines failing in the Middle East. The article was in a defense dept. magazine or maybe one intended for contractors.
The fascinating thing to me is that Beretta told the Army not to use parkerized magazines as they retain sand. The Army went ahead anyway and sure enough they jammed. Also the quality was not top notch and were produced by a third party.
I wonder if the problems with the M4 could be something similar.
That article was in G&A. I read it and for the first time thought that the M9 might actually be a good pistol after all.