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I find it hard to believe that an M-9 is considered heavy. Mine is practically a flyweight compared to a fullsize 1911, of course my fullsize is a Kimber Warrior II (speaking of junk...). The issue with the M-9 magazines was that they were too old. You can't leave some magazines fully loaded forever. We've all heard the stories of magazines left fully loaded for 10 years, but that is a rarity if not downright unbelieveable. The issue of bad magazines is history, at least with the Army. A friend of mine went to Afghanistan last year and I offered to buy him some new magazines to take with him. He said they had new magazines coming out their bohunkus.
Personally, I have never had my M-9 jam, and I've fed about everything through it you can think of in the last 15 years. It's easy to shoot and accurate at any practical range. I would always want to have my backup in a war zone. In some situations it is going to be easier to use than even an M-4. There are many options of where you can wear it, shoulder harness, chest harness, hip, thigh; it's just not an issue. your primary weapon can take a hit just as easy as a man can. It's nice to have a weapon without waiting for your bud to get killed first...... The guy from my church works in the motor pool in Baghdad. He has no weapon under the vehicle with him while working on it. He would definitely prefer to have an M-9 to having to wait until he is out from under the vehicle to get his M-16. To each his own I guess....
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Revelation 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
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