About 15-16, which is exactly the number of sevicemen I've talked to about it

The only reason they didn't pick it that I can see is that it doesn't do well in water

We should have went with the SIG though

I find that unusual, considering how few servicemen actually carry sidearms anymore. I know plenty of soldiers (and former soldiers), and all of them got through their deployments without ever carrying the M9. Their only M9 experience was from training and qualification.

I've read countless complaints about the Beretta on the Internet from people who have served (or claim to have served), but 99% of them seem to be about caliber, nothing else. Every once in a while I encounter someone who brings up the slide fracturing problem, but I tend to think they're just echoing what they've read elsewhere - because they don't seem to be aware that this problem (to the extent that it was ever serious) was fixed 20 years ago.

The SIG had issues of its own at the time (breaking trigger bar springs that sometimes damaged the frame, barrel bending, extractor problems, etc.). I love SIGs, but given that the design was still being perfected at the time of the XM9 trials, I think the Beretta made more sense. In fact, if the P226 had become the M9, I'm guessing that it would have just as bad a rep as the 92F by now.

I own two, a former police issue 92F and 92FS Inox. Beretta's like any other gun have their haters and lovers. Glocks might have the best records as being tough as nails. But they are the ugliest f*cking gun alive to me. I'll never own one. Also I'm not against "tupperware" guns. I have been looking at XDs pretty hard. But there's a SIG P220 on GB that's caught my eye.

Glocks, SIGS and XD's are all good guns, but S&W's have always been my favorite

Hence your user name. I am thinking about geting a S&W M&P in .45

Never liked the plastic guns but the M&P grip is actually very comfy, and interests me. Its not like the ergonomic nightmare called the glock

Or they could just slap on some .50 cal beowulf uppers on all their AR-15 based weapons, thats made to pierce intermediate armor and bulletproof glass.