[gnarledmaw]

No contracts for S&W!

[TroutStalker]

What about the ones you and your partner make?

www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/

[Support Free Republic]

Let's keep the Dem's on the run!
Click the Pic!

[crazykatz]

Now, why in the world should the US Govt. buy products made by its own citizens who pay TAXES and vote??

Why, that would be absurd!

sarcasm off.

We own 2 Smith & Wesson revolvers and we are real, real happy with them.

[crazykatz]

Nice web site. We will check you out for our next weapons purchase.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Oh, great. Glocks and their oh-so-secure trigger "safety".

[pabianice]

Wonderful how the government keeps stepping on its own crank. I feel safer already...

[snopercod]

Why not a revolver? How many shots do they think they are going to need up there?

[hattend]

Why not give the pilots a voucher and let them buy their own handgun from a maker of their choice.

[society-by-contract]

PUBLIC NOTICE: henceforward, I shall be calling the cartridge formerly known as ".40 S&W" by a new name -- ".40 Liberty" -- to disassociate one of the greatest implements of self-defense ever conceived from the cowardly corporation doing its best to eradicate the very concept of self-defense, and to remind everybody to boycott that corporation and interdict its sales to all government agencies.
-- L. Neil Smith

Smith and Wesson Must Die:

http://www.lneilsmith.com/smithandwessonmustdie.html

[El Gato]

Why not just either require the pilots to supply their own firearms, or give them an allowance and let them buy and pick what they want. Maybe specify a few choices of calibration. I.E. Anything they want in .38 spl, .357, .44 spl, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP. Or any other .38 or larger centerfire catridge available commercially with whatever style of loading (ie. low velocity fragmenting bullet) that TSA will "allow". Save a lot of paperwork that way, and not PO any manufacturer.