Glock beats Sig in FBI pistol contract

[hpman66]

To top it all off the "level playing field" was slanted in Sig's favor. :wink: :mrgreen:

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/0...urce=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
BACK TO THE FUTURE? FBI Adopts What Sounds Like A 1990s-Era 9mm Glock
Posted at 3:03 pm on June 30, 2016 by Bob Owens

 

[Pat-inCO]

Just like they picked the 10mm after the fiasco in FL ('82?).

It'll change.

 

[coach]

I shot a glock and a sig for the first time the other day. The glock trigger wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Didn't much care for the sig's trigger. Only shot a couple mags so it's not like I got used to them.
Other guy shot my Springfield 1911. His first time on that platform. Needless to say he was impressed by the trigger. He thought I might have done some trigger work, but it is stock. It's hard to beat a good single action trigger.

 

[mohavesam]

Follow the money. Has nothing to do with the design or performance. It is still the Obama administration and the FBI answers to the President ultimately.
Follow the money involved.

 

[dougader]

Well, I never liked the transition trigger on a DA/SA gun like the Sig P226 and the Beretta M9/92F. If the guns could be carried cocked and locked like a 1911 then I'd take a more serious look at those guns.

Even then I'd pick the Beretta over the Sig because the slide and sights sits so high above the hand.

I have owned several Glocks over the years and still consider them my serious carry gun, whether it's in 45 or 9mm.

 

[Jeepnik]

I don't hate either. And I know both are US made. But not by US owned companies. I just wonder why the US government doesn't mandate that things be bought not just from companies making things in the US (many set up shop in the US just for that reason), but from US owned companies.

In a recent project for the USN we had to source our materials from US sources unless it was not available from a US source. I know for a fact that quite a bit of the material came from overseas and filtered through US companies.

 

[Mike J]

If they really wanted the Sig 320 I find myself wondering why they didn't make a modular design a requirement. FWIW I don't think they are selling themselves short with either of these.

 

[gramps]

I have never shot a sig. My son has a Glock 22, that he dearly loves. I can shoot them, but it is like work. Glocks do have a good reputation for reliability.
gramps

 

[rgp375]

They are getting Glocks for the same reason agencies worldwide are get Glocks. It's because they're cheap.

 

[mohavesam]

They are getting Glocks for the same reason agencies worldwide are get Glocks. It's because they're cheap.

BINGO. Yahtzee! Survey Sez...

Gaston Glock has sold hundreds of contracts at an initial loss to make fortunes on spares and follow-ons. He's been doing that since the mid-1980s.
Not the best, not the "favored", just the lowest bidder. As always. Still plenty of room for kickbacks and political favors.

- Next we'll hear the FBI can't use all those millions of 40 S&W rounds bought last year because of the unsupported chamber of that design... get ready for another midnight ammo spending add-on on a procurement bill... :? :roll: :roll:

 

[exavid]

No wonder the government costs so much to run. First they go to .40 now back to 9mm. Definitely be plenty of .40s on the market soon since all those other government agencies will want to go to the 9mm Glocks too. It never made much sense to me that the government agencies and armed forces needed different pistols. A handgun isn't a long range weapon and isn't very powerful anyway so why can't they all use the same thing and save us taxpayers a few bucks?

 

[cas6969]

Is this the same FBI that just today proved they have no integrity?

 

[hpman66]

Never let it be said that I don't tell both sides of the story: :wink: :mrgreen:

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/08/20/recalled-already-new-glocks-less-perfection/
Recalled Already? New Glocks Are Less than “Perfection”
Posted at 12:53 pm on August 20, 2016 by Bob Owens

 

[chowser51]

Why do they have that photoshopped picture of the 19M on the page at all? I like it but I'm tired of seeing it posted everywhere. I know Mo is happy his photoshop pic is making the rounds but the websites need to check their sources before posting pictures.

I doubt this will be released in anything other than 9mm because of the two-pin design so I'll just break down and buy a gen4 32 and dremel off the fingergrooves.

 

[exavid]

Glocks work but they ain't purty! It will depend on who's elected whether all those government .40s will be sold or scrapped. If they cared a whit about tax payer money they'd sell 'em. But liberals will demand destruction of them.

 

[TinkerDave]

Just like they picked the 10mm after the fiasco in FL ('82?).

It'll change.

It was before the FBI fiasco in Miami, which took place in 1986. My brother & I were three blocks away when it happened. TD

 

[blackhawknj]

Liberals caring about taxpayer's money ?

 

[sliclee]

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT GLOCK LOVER, IS HE HIDING?
In my entire life I don't ever remember slides or any part of a chosen pistol FALLING OFF.

 

[Mike J]

Glocks work but they ain't purty! It will depend on who's elected whether all those government .40s will be sold or scrapped. If they cared a whit about tax payer money they'd sell 'em. But liberals will demand destruction of them.

Not sure about the FBI guns but I see a lot of LEO trade ins around here when I go to the guns stores. I'm not the biggest Glock fan (never owned one) but I'd kinda like to have a G-23.

 

[Thumbcocker]

I do not like Glocks. I like Bisley Rugers. However there is logic in Glock as a means to take a person with no firearms experience, arm them, and train them up quickly. A gun that looks like a camera with a crappy trigger pull that goes bang most every time and can survive limited maintaince makes sense. I think of Glock as the AK47 of handguns.