You will doubtless also have noted that this procurement involved a four-month T&E ramrodded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit, and that they selected, along with the DAO, the DAK trigger.
I did notice that, and I'm sure it is meaningful. OTOH, a friend of mine at the Columbus OH PD told me of their testing the .40 S&W P-226-DAK earlier this year. My friend currently works in Intelligence, and was formerly in both K-9 and SWAT. He also is an FTO, and is a 20+ year CPD veteran.
"After 2 or 3 thousand rounds, all six of our test guns would malfunction. The slide would lock open with a nearly full magazine.
We contacted SIG twice to be told it was operator error. Finally, they were able to make their guns at the factory do it when they shot enough rounds. The guns were returned and new springs installed. The same thing happened again, and SIG said the problem had been corrected - it MUST be operator error.
It was probably more their corporate attitude than the guns that got them disqualified. The PD fair haired boys REALLY wanted those SIG K guns! If SIG would have really taken care of the problem, we'd have 'em by now - but an expensive gun is a hard sell when it doesn't work."
Maybe Sigarms was preoccupied with the much larger Fed contract, so they didn't pay much attention to Columbus. :?: Perhaps CPD also helped Sigarms correct an issue that allowed them to win the Fed contract? Quien sabe?
Harvey
