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By: GunPundit » Blog Archive » Those 20,000 M9 pistols are for Iraq Police

GunPundit » Blog Archive » Those 20,000 M9 pistols are for Iraq Police — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:00:25 +0000

[...] week I noted a Strategy Page post on an order for 20,000 more M9 pistols for the US Army. The weapons are actually intended for the Iraqi police force, not our army. From [...]

By: Daniel E. Watters

Daniel E. Watters — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:25:27 +0000

Skeptic:

That would have been me. It always irks me when StrategyPage (and other blogs) fail to dig deeper than the contract announcement. Most TACOM contract documents are available online to the public. Even if you don’t have the TACOM web page bookmarked, a simple Google search of the contract number should have pulled up a link to the .pdf file on their site.

By: thebronze

thebronze — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:02:53 +0000

The M-9 sucks.

By: Formerly known as Skeptic

Formerly known as Skeptic — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:56:30 +0000

In the comments to that StrategyPage link, someone pointed out that the contract is for Foreign Military Sales. Specifically, these are for Iraq. Just another example of the Iraqis wanting what we have. Chillax, OK.

By: Army orders 20,000 more M9s – Call me Ahab

Army orders 20,000 more M9s – Call me Ahab — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:57 +0000

[...] Strategy Page via Gunpundit, the Army has gone ahead and procured 20k more M9 pistols for TACOM (Tank and Automotive [...]

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:43:45 +0000

A good .45 or a Pimp gun…

Lemme think… Hang on…