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Topic ID: 11
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#11, RE: Gun of the Week: M1911A1
Posted by eriktown on Jan-25-17 at 11:21 PM
In response to message #0
Speaking of MYEAR guns, the US Army picked a new sidearm last week: the M17 is a striker-fired polymer made by SIG Sauer (who are essentially an American company run by Germans these days, though with all those mergers and buyouts it gets hard to tell). The M17 is a version of what SIG sells in the civilian market as the P320. It's a pretty cool design - the whole gun is a mechanical assembly, a chassis that can be simply lifted out of the frame without the use of tools, and then put in any other frame built for that caliber. So you can buy a full-sized frame that has the 'gun' part in it, and a subcompact frame, and when you want to carry your gun, you don't have to go through all that paperwork again - just spend a minute disassembling the fullsize, popping the chassis into the subcompact frame, and reassembling it. The Army wanted this so that the same gun could be used within multiple mission parameters, and having common parts for everything cuts down on costs. The downside is that the subcompact is bulkier than most.

Sadly this is unlikely to mean that the market will be flooded with surplus M9s in the near future, as that would require an act of Congress.

And speaking of 1911s - Gryph, have you seen the Hudson H9? It's a very interesting design.