So what you are telling me is if we take A MP 2.0 9mm and run four mags through it dump style, theow it on the ground, pick it up, field strip, reassemble, and then repeat this starting with four mag dumps, letting the barrel cool, and keep doing this over and over and over,
that the MP2.0 will hang right in there with the 320 and the glock?
I have no hidden agenda Im just askin how good is the pistol.
Why do they consider the M&P to be not as good as the Sig or Glock?
They wanted a modular pistol which neither Glock nor MP are
There is your answer. The only pistol submitted that meets the requirements for a MODULAR Combat Pistol was the Sig 320. In this aspect alone the competition was over before it started.
A friend of mine that owned a gun shop was telling me about a bid he had submitted to a local police department in response to a request for purchase of shotguns. He said the specifications for the shotgun matched only one shotgun, a Remington riot style shotgun, the model number I don't recall. His bid was for another brand shotgun which came very close to the bid specifications but he didn't get the contract. He was told by a friend in the police department that the chief wanted Remington and used the factory specifications published by Remington in the request for bid. I have no idea how many pistols are considered modular but it makes you wonder if someone wanted Sig and only Sig.
I work for the fed govt and can tell you that while this is not supposed to happen, it's not rare. In a govt (any level) request for proposals,you are using public $ so they make you need to run a fair and open competition . You also only get the funding once so you need to get it right the first time. However, there are companies out there that will gladly take your $ and leave you stunned with the miserable product/services on the contract they beat out a reputable vendor on. Once you get stung once or twice with a low bid to deliver an inferior product you (as the one writing the contract) learn to write your requirement specs as tight as you can (and still get past the legal department).
In defense of the chief he may have been considering that he may need to keep these guns for a decade or more before he gets upgrade $ again. He knows reliability will be what he needs and warranty service, parts, aftermarket accessories, vehicle mounts, etc will be plentiful. Where as if he got say RIA M5's (which are still an excellent shotgun), he may struggle with these logistics issues down the road.
Then again, maybe he just likes Remington
See FN FNS trigger https://fnamerica.com/products/pistols/fns-9/I am just going to say it. I can't imagine that silly trigger mechanism that M&P uses (the two-piece, articulated trigger instead of the flipper thing everybody else uses) holding up.