Didn't St. Louis PD have a special run of DA-only Beretta 92's made a few years ago?
Didn't St. Louis PD have a special run of DA-only Beretta 92's made a few years ago?
I imagine the USMC M45A1 procurement in 2012 was the last hammer fired procurement for the US military? Not a particularly long period of service for the CQBP...
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
Originally Posted by paherne
See Ben’s post. Looks like it was a shipment of additional guns for their already existing contract.
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Hmm, that does remind me that NSW adopted the HK45C as the MK 24 MOD 0 in 2011, though that's obviously also not an LEA.
If we're looking at the period of 2004-2024, there's a number of small SOF 1911 procurements, culminating with the aforementioned M45A1 CQBP in 2012. The M45A1 was also the largest of these procurements at 4,036 pistols; the other purchases were much smaller. The USMC purchased a few hundred Springfield Professionals (PC9111 and PC9111MC) during this time period, followed by a few hundred of their own USMC serial numbered SACS Custom Carry 1911s. There was also the procurement of 200 Kimber 'ICQB' pistols for USMC DET-1 in 2005 that received much fanfare.
In 2004 Army SOF purchased 275 SACS assembled 1911s (the PC9114). Later in 2009 the same unit procured a similar number of STI .40 2011s which were briefly tested and found wanting.
"When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man."
From the thread title, and just curious, what does "Major US LE purchase" mean?
In other words, is this only United States government LE agencies/departments?
With the "US LE" wording, it'd seem to then omit military purchases/use.
Or does it mean state, county, or city departments of any size or quantity of pistols which may have been bought/issued?
The various responses/replies seem to have covered most, if not all, U.S. government LE uses, including some military users. As I type, with the 2004-2024 timeframe, unless I missed reading it, I think FBI still had the Springfield Professional 1911 as a potentially issued or approved SWAT/HRT pistol; and US Navy/SEAL still issuing SIG P226 depending on mission/assignments.
I can think of some state/county/city California departments which issued hammer-fired SIGs or S&Ws, but have since (probably) switched to striker-fired brands & models (Calif. CHP [S&W 4006]; Alameda Co.[SIG P229]; San Jose PD [SIG P226], come to mind).
While Glock, to me at least, still seems to have price/service/training/parts-support, there are some striker-fired competitors which have made a small "dent" by securing some department contracts (S&W, FN, SIG, come to mind).
Also, note, with some LEOs, whether Federal or local, as mentioned previously, some agencies/departments might allow personally-owned firearms for its LEOs. Some of these personally-owned-firearms might be bought directly from the manufacturer, perhaps at some kind of discount/deal.
In 2010-ish, West Virginia State police ordered up 750ish S&W 4566 TSW's. I think the S&W pistols had been out of production for about a decade before the West Virginia order.
https://www.policemag.com/weapons/ne...highway-patrol
Wasn’t that due to issues with the G21s?
From what I heard many years ago, PSP had a very strict policy of all things carried on the gun belt, including where on the belt.
They moved a few years ago to the Glock 17Gen5 (maybe the 17M specifically, not sure). Same as my state KY, who went with the Gen5 17 and 43X.
In 2006, S&W wouldn’t sell us 30 5906s (the chief didn’t want to buy new leather) so we traded into the then new M&P40. Sometime after that I read that they sold the California Highway Patrol 10,000 4006s. I’m not sure when the metal frame guns went out of production.
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