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Paladin wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:11 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:05 pm

Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:47 pm

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:56 pm Wait……isn’t the M17 basically just a P320 in kaki underwear? If the gun is so dang dangerous, how did it pass military acceptance trials?

How did Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) ever pass military acceptance trials?

Why don't military rifles have free-floated barrels?

Big Army does stupid things in Big Ways.

The dirty little secret that anyone who has served knows is that the military is actually one of the worst offenders when it comes to wasting American tax dollars.

No worries, its us paying for all that government waste.

I agree that as a general institution, our military is as wasteful as it gets—except for maybe the Marine Corps, which gets everyone else's cast-offs and has done more with less throughout its entire history. But to the point with the Sig M17, these pistols have been issued now for a while, and in some quantity. How many of them "just went off" all by their onesies? I’m guessing none, or it would already be being dissected in Congress, with dems blaming it all on "drumpf" because he’s STILL living rent free in their heads.

Commanders have an easy fix... just require soldiers to keep them unloaded

I've talked about that subject before. I am completely of the opinion that any given commander would rather take a chance of a random attack on their installation than the chance of negligent discharges. The latter being more likely than the former, and promotions often being hinged upon who has the least amount of issues while in command, negligent discharges could prevent some officer from getting that next shiny thing on their collar, or even from getting a star one day. Which is why I am VERY curious about this whole thing with the Sig P320 when, as TAM pointed out, so many M7s have been in service for so long, without much (if any) in the way of incidents with those carrying them.

Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:07 pm

FL450 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:31 pm https://abcnews.go.com/US/detective-sue ... d=79605906

Seen on Good Morning America

“Never, in my wildest dreams, would I have believed that my gun would just have shot me,” she said. “Gun owners don't want to think that their gun can just go off without the trigger being pulled.”

Is this, like, an episode of Punk'd? Have they brought that series back?

What she meant to say was, never in her wildest dreams did she believe that she would get to file a lawsuit against a major firearms manufacturer, likely for monetary (and political) gain.