While there has been some variation in Materials, QC, and coatings in Sig Sauer's American made pistols over the past few years for some contract customers, the "military" versions are now available for purchase over the counter (mk25), the details you are adding in are gun store counter embellishments at best. Sig certainly didn't do this for everybody either. It was by request. Sig has also trended back to using same parts, QC, and finishes for their commercial guns as well. The mk25 is largely a marketing job where you pay more for an anchor and a few more coated internal parts so you can infiltrate submarines or something.
Honestly, knowing a bit about how Sig fulfilled LE and Mil orders over the past decade and a half, you probably were looking at guns that were a hodgepodge of German and American parts, or were certainly older guns while Sig's American branch went through their Global parts sourcing and overal cheapening phase....
I'm not sure where you are going on the P239 track either. They have always been a stainless slide with various finishes used. Also, since when does the Army buy the P226???? Anyways, you probably should stop back pedaling.
As far as police trade ins, they can have the brakes beaten off of them, they can be rough outside and mint inside, or they can be essentially unissued and LNIB. If you write them off wholesale, you are limiting yourself and looking silly to the people that know better. A lot of depts buy way more guns than they need, or change them out every few years because they are budgeted to spend my tax dollars willy nilly. There are also a lot of politics and personal preference,and even graft involved with depts switching all of the time. What is the fashionable cop gun today becomes an anchor and liability the next (DAK sigs and similar HK's for example). Also, factory support also dictates when depts change. (Third gen smith users for example). Large departments have in-house factory trained armorers that are capable of maintaining the guns and keeping them free of the dangerous sweat, vomit, or whatever else you are scared of landing on the gun. Which are also hazards that not all cops will encounter. Detectives, supervisors, admin, FTO's etc will not be swimming in sweat or vomit typically. And sweat will not kill a Glock or M&P beyond the springs that at half-asleep armorer can replace. I don't suggest buying these guns if you don't like them, but there are some awesome deals in cop-land guns. Especially if you like the DA/SA guns going out of style like third gen smiths, berettas, and sigs. If you can find any vomit on them, I'll send you a few boxes of ammo. But the point I am trying to make is that ex cop guns range in quality and condition for a number of reasons. Most are on the right side of fine.
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