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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on June 06, 2009, 11:00:53 PM
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25598518-661,00.html
A GLOBAL "gun fight" is expected to break out over the lucrative Victoria Police .
Police will go to tender on Tuesday and international arms makers from across the globe could be in the running.
The contract's specified requirement is that the semi-automatic pistol has a .40 calibre.
Austrian company Glock, Belgian gunsmiths Browning and US company Colt all make a semiautomatic pistol with that size bore.
James Bond's favourite arms manufacturers, Beretta, from Italy, and Walther, a German manufacturer, also make a .40 pistol.
There is also a chance Smith & Wesson - which supplies the Victoria Police six-shooter revolver, but also makes a .40 magazine clip pistol - may get to keep, but vary, its contract.
Heckler & Koch, from Germany, and Switzerland's SIG, are also contenders.
Chief Commissioner Simon Overland said: "There's a range of issues around performance, reliability, safety and magazine capacity."
Semi-automatics' magazine capacities vary depending on the model, but clips contain up to 15 rounds - dwarfing the six-bullet load of the current revolver.
"The firearms will be fitted to suit left or right-handers and people with small or large hands," said Acting Supt Terence Jackson, from the Firearm Replacement Project.
Experts said this could rule out the Glock which, as a self-cocking gun with articulated trigger safety, can technically be used with only one hand.
The contract is worth up to $18 million.
A handgun that can be used with only one hand - what a novel idea, and apparently that's no good.
also what is it is it a Magazine or a Clip
last time I checked the S&W M&P took a Magazine not a clip
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Haz will tell ya the difference. 8)
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Haz will tell ya the difference. 8)
hehe that was why I posted it ;)
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"James Bond's favourite arms manufacturers, Beretta, from Italy, and Walther,"
Actually in the books, James used neither of those, but a MAUSER, Hsc.
I thought Sig already got the contract, or was that just for one state, or maybe the Army ?
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According to last issue of American Rifleman, S&W's M+P got the contract.
Unless something's changed...
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According to last issue of American Rifleman, S&W's M+P got the contract.
Unless something's changed...
that is here in South Australia :) Victoria are still working out what they want ::)
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Thanks for the clarification phil.
How's the winter going for you down under?