S&W Wins ATF contract
Updated: January 9th, 2013
It appears that S&W’s pistol in the BATFE sidebar competition beat out the Glock and Sig entries. The contract is worth up to $40 million. I am not sure which S&W model, almost certainly an M&P, was the winner.
UPDATE: Glock also won! Glock also gets up to $40 million. ToddG blogged about it here.
[ Many thanks to Ty for emailing me the link. ]
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Navy Seal use sig. CZ75B is the most cloned handgun in the world and that is a DA/SA.
The feds are locking in the price on up to that many pistols for up to ten years for any federal agency. They may not actually buy that many.
There are about 85,000 armed federal agents. With one full size and one back up compact each, that's 170,000 pistols, possibly.
This is for .40 caliber. If an agency wants a 9/357/45, they are going to have to make their own deal. Kinda like the messed up deal the FAMs made w SIG for P250s that they bought, then recalled from service, and are not using. What a mess.