Military selects Sig 320

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DocT

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Has anyone seen this? From my perspective, this has been too long in coming. The Beretta was not the best choice but now it seems some sense has finally crept into the military mind. The Glock almost made it, apparently. Glock is the issue weapon of Special Forces and Marine Raiders, among others. The SEALS and Navy love their Sigs. I am not certain if this had anything to do with the choice, but I would assume being able to buy one gun and change it for grip size and mission specific caliber and set up had a lot to do with the choice. Kudos to the military for this.
 
That and the manual safety, i thought not having one would kill the Glock. All of the ones in the final running were great guns. Now I'm gonna have to pick up a sig 320 just because.
 
The 320 is made in America by Americans. No guns from "American" makers made it to the finals, such as S&W, Ruger, etc. The Glock and Sig are both made in America (Georgia and Massachusetts, respectively).

I, for one, was hoping for Glock. But, if not Glock then Sig. So I am happy.
 
I was hoping for the Glock so that in the future cheap surplus Glocks would runneth over... :D

But Sig makes some nice guns, I'm sure they will be happy with them. Although I like the Beretta too (as a civilian) but of course I only ever shot paper at the range with mine.

I REALLY like how Sig made the trigger group the serialized part more than anything else. Where I live buying guns gets harder and more expensive every year, so the more versatile/modular a gun is, the better.
 
DocT said:
The 320 is made in America by Americans. No guns from "American" makers made it to the finals, such as S&W, Ruger, etc. The Glock and Sig are both made in America (Georgia and Massachusetts, respectively).

I, for one, was hoping for Glock. But, if not Glock then Sig. So I am happy.
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Sig Sauer is in Exeter New Hampshire, not Massachusetts.
 
So does this mean cheap military surplus Beretta pistols are going to be hitting the market sometime in the future?
 
anyone who has served in the army will understand what a bone head move it is to issue a striker fired pistol to troops. it better have a 50lb trigger or they will have to start issuing bullet proof boots and pants.
 
Anyone who has actually been in the military knows that a round is never carried in the chamber unless in combat. Also, the training is good enough that even people from large northern cities will not normally have an AD. In all the years I served I never heard of or saw a single AD. (I am aware of some police officers who had ADs with heavy triggered DA revolvers and with pistols that had safeties on them).
 
Short of a gun sitting alone all by itself, and going boom, its an ND. People that use the term AD seem to always try and blame the gun, instead of themselves.

Seen more than a few soldiers do that too, and cops, and civilians, saw a group of contractors all with Texas patches on the front of their plate carriers who in a weeks time had 5/five NDs between them.

I am in no way disparaging all Texans as non gun handling, just pointing out that bad firearms safety is not a northern/southern thing.( from a poster above a few spots)

As far as the new sig, it looks cool, and that's what a pistol usually only does in the military, should work better than the berretta, never liked them.

Looks like from the pics that the sight line is a bit higher than a glock, kinda like the xd, otherwise its a sig, it'll work fine.
 
I've shot a 320, I believe with the full-sized slide on the compact frame, as that is the owner's carry preference. Nothing that took my breath away, but that could be because I've owned an SP2022 for years and thus am already "on board" with SIG's polymer frame models.
 
One of the main ingredients for the weapon choice is who brings the lowest bid to the table. Not saying the SIG is not a nice pistol but I'll stick with my Glocks.
 
Bugs57 said:
One of the main ingredients for the weapon choice is who brings the lowest bid to the table. Not saying the SIG is not a nice pistol but I'll stick with my Glocks.
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Being the lowest bidder is what made glock and got them into a ton of police departments

Glock being stubborn is what probably killed them for this contract. They'll make a gen 4 hybrid with no finger ridges but they won't make a model with a thumb safety for a lot larger contract. Yeah, smart on glock's part
 
M67 said:
Being the lowest bidder is what made glock and got them into a ton of police departments

Glock being stubborn is what probably killed them for this contract. They'll make a gen 4 hybrid with no finger ridges but they won't make a model with a thumb safety for a lot larger contract. Yeah, smart on glock's part
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Glocks already have three safeties integrated into their design. They don't need a forth, external safety, that's only going to get in the way.
 
I picked up a p320 full size today, gun shop had it cheap 350. Its a 357 sig and I've got 40 cal barrel on the way. Sweet trigger and taking it apart is really easy, barrel and slide take down and pulling the trigger module is super simple. Ran a couple of mags through it and it shoots sweet. I think the army made a good choice for a really modular gun. As much as I love my Glocks this is a sweet pistol.

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