Issues handguns

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Jeremy

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Is their a website that tells you the Issued firearm in a certin state or area. My brother thinks that ALL police in the USA use a 9mm Beretta which I do not believe is true. He also thinks CZ firearms are cheap which only forign countries buy. My brother doesnt really know anything about firearms. He only has one gun, a lever action shotgun which was our great uncles( I got his 22)
 
I remember a thread about a year ago that listed the issue weapons of state police agencies, you could try a search if that's what you're looking for.

Short of that, I can only help with Flint and Ann Arbor, MI areas.
 
I dont know what our local departments use, because they seem to have a choice. I have seen both glocks and sigs. Pick a handgun, and some agency has probably at least considered using it.
 
My brother thinks that ALL police in the USA use a 9mm Beretta which I do not believe is true.
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Well, he is wrong, you are right. Just tell him that I was talking to a trainer for the Cobb County (Ga.) PD just this weekend at a Christmas party, and asked him what their standard issue sidearm is -- he said that they were using Glocks (several models) in .40 S&W, they are using Winchester Ranger SXT's for ammo. That alone refutes your brother. In fact, there is no accepted "Standard" LE sidearm in the US, that is determined on a by-department basis.
 
My brother doesnt really know anything about firearms.
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That's a given :D

Mostly Glocks and Sigs in the Eugene, Springfield area. I have seen other different types in the holsters of the Sheriff Deputies, I think they are just given a gun allowance and a list of approved firearms.

Wayne
 
My brother thinks that ALL police in the USA use a 9mm Beretta which I do not believe is true.
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Man, nothing could be further from the truth. There's a whole hodgepodge of stuff being issued out there. Ours are Glock 17's. OHP is issued Sigs. Hancock Co. SRT is issued Kimber 1911's! :cool: And that's not including officer-owned weapons carried on duty.
 
Around here issued guns include some SigSaurs, Glocks of various models, 1911s, Smith and Wessons, and yep - the Berretta 92. FWIW.
 
He also thinks CZ firearms are cheap which only forign countries buy. My brother doesnt really know anything about firearms.

Well if by 'foreign' he means all of NATO, then he's correct as the CZ-P01 is NATO's choice of pistols.

If by 'cheap', he means inferior - he is truly exhibiting his firerams ignorance. CZ's are well-constructed, accurate, tough, ergonomically superior, and economically reasonable.

If I were you I wouldn't even bother arguing with him - the egg needs to hatch before he even gets to 'Grasshopper' status!!!
 
I have seen, <ahem> 'mature' Dallas PD officers still carrying revolvers -- I guess they are grandfathered in. I think new ones have to use semi-autos and most that I have seen are SIGS.
 
Sig P226's at the department I worked at.

Prior to that it was whatever the officer wanted to carry in .38, .357, 9mm, or .45ACP.
 
Iowa State Patrol will be switching to S&W MPs shortly and CRPD uses glocks. Before you show him the light bet him money. You know what they say about a fool and his money...
 
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