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<blockquote data-quote="Rod Snell" data-source="post: 1479426" data-attributes="member: 796"><p>Thanks for the very entertaining thread! I found it highly amusing. Why?</p><p></p><p>I'm old enough to remember when the Glock first appeared, and everyone was worried they could not possibly be as reliable as the 1911s and the SIGs.</p><p></p><p>You know what? In the US Army tests for the 9mm replacement for the 1911, the original 1911 tests were repeated with a new Colt model 1911 included as a control, and <strong>only the 1911 passed!</strong> The SIG was second in score.</p><p></p><p>That was the wrong answer politically, so the Army was told to repeat the test. Same results. The Beretta was finally picked as <em>quid pro quo <em> for Italy buying the F 16s from us (not the reason given to the newspapers). I was in the Pentagon at the time (on a completely separate project) and heard the Army 06 tell Congress, "We could repeat the test again and the results would be the same. Just tell us which gun you want us to buy and we'll do it."</em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod Snell, post: 1479426, member: 796"] Thanks for the very entertaining thread! I found it highly amusing. Why? I'm old enough to remember when the Glock first appeared, and everyone was worried they could not possibly be as reliable as the 1911s and the SIGs. You know what? In the US Army tests for the 9mm replacement for the 1911, the original 1911 tests were repeated with a new Colt model 1911 included as a control, and [B]only the 1911 passed![/B] The SIG was second in score. That was the wrong answer politically, so the Army was told to repeat the test. Same results. The Beretta was finally picked as [I]quid pro quo [I] for Italy buying the F 16s from us (not the reason given to the newspapers). I was in the Pentagon at the time (on a completely separate project) and heard the Army 06 tell Congress, "We could repeat the test again and the results would be the same. Just tell us which gun you want us to buy and we'll do it."[/I][/I] [/QUOTE]
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