17 September 2018

What If


In 1954 Smith and Wesson created the Model 39 to enter into the US Army's service pistol trials.

The AR-10 was entered in the 1955 service rifle trials.

The pistol trials resulted in nothing.  A pattern that repeats several times from 1954 to SIG getting the M17 contract.

The rifle trials saw the Home-Town Favorite T-44A4 being type classified as the M14.

But what if?  This could have been Pistol, 9mm, M1 and Rifle, 7.62 NATO, M14!

But for the vagaries of politics...
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4 comments:

  1. rick17 September, 2018 22:16

    I'm pretty sure there was at least one pistol trial award between 1954 and the M17....

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    1. Angus McThag18 September, 2018 09:02

      Just because they managed to get the M9 and M11 accepted doesn't really change that they Lucy'd the gun makers at least a dozen times with the "we're gonna replace the existing pistol" football.

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  2. Weer'd Beard18 September, 2018 16:45

    What were the pistols m1-8?

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    1. Angus McThag18 September, 2018 17:11

      That has been astonishingly hard to discover.

      Heck, what was the M10? Or M12 through 16?

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