There has to be some corruption and/or grift going on with Sig Sauer somehow getting the contracts for both the Army’s new pistol and new rifle within a few years of each other. Though i have also read rumors that Sig made the cheapest per-weapon offer of all the companies that submitted for both programs – that might be the real answer.

Worse, the new Army handgun is based off the Sig P320, which is an extremely dangerous pistol and is getting people (including police) killed by firing on its own. I have even heard that the military guns have this problem and some Army MP’s (the most frequent carriers of pistols) have seen accidental discharges. Sig is handling this in about the way you’d expect a dirty capitalist company to: they’re publicly denying there is any problem with the guns and seem to be refusing any kind of investigations or recalls or refunds. There is speculation that if they were to issue a recall it would bankrupt them given how many P320’s and variants are out there.

Military procurement is such a dirty industry.