Blades, Your understanding??? What is this based on??? Something you heard from a gunshop commando?? If you read my account, which really isn't mine, it's the actual account from military sources, you will read that cost was the biggest factor. You must take into account that IMPORTING the SIGS would have driven up the cost!!! It also would slow down production heavily!!! If you have been following the gun industry, SIG is have a hard time filling their contracts now as it is, let alone the m9 contract. They have been busting hump trying to fill the M11 orders that civilian sales were slowed considerably.
But you are correct that SIG and Beretta both past the trials. I wish people would read the whole thread before opening up their yappers. It would save on repeating things 100 times. It has already been stated and verified by several sources that the SIG and Beretta both passed and it was the pending negotiations that killed any deal with SIG, at that time. Since then, the SIG 228 (M11) has been adopted.
But if you would like to theorize as opposed to going by the official record, I guess you could surmise that the building of the factory did play a factor. How much, I have no idea...anything else???
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But you are correct that SIG and Beretta both past the trials. I wish people would read the whole thread before opening up their yappers. It would save on repeating things 100 times. It has already been stated and verified by several sources that the SIG and Beretta both passed and it was the pending negotiations that killed any deal with SIG, at that time. Since then, the SIG 228 (M11) has been adopted.
But if you would like to theorize as opposed to going by the official record, I guess you could surmise that the building of the factory did play a factor. How much, I have no idea...anything else???
[This message has been edited by PeterGunn (edited January 13, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by PeterGunn (edited January 13, 2000).]