OK, educate me here regarding pistols and the US military.

[funkychinaman]

No, I just meant I didn't want to quote that whole block of text.

I don't think the Hurt Locker scenario is a very likely one. A more likely scenario would involve someone with a rifle.

I think once you add a foregrip, you acknowledge that it's no longer a handgun. How many handguns have foregrips? (And the Beretta 93 is a machine pistol.) Why not a folding stock while we're at it? (I'd love to see someone make a modern version of a Mauser C96. I think that would make both of us happy here.)

As for JCP, I'm not saying none of them were good enough, just that the military never specified which one was the best. All of the candidates got good reviews.