US soldier with BHP in Fox news this morning?

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Any of you guys catch the segment on Fox News (during their morning show) that showed some US soldiers doing house clearing? One soldier (looked like a staff sergeant) had what looked to be a BHP while another soldier with a flattop M-16 with a long scope moved in front of him. The whole video was in that grainy IR video so it was hard to make out details, but it really looked like a BHP rather than a 1911. Are there some units with that much sidearm leeway or do we still have some BHPs floating around in our inventory?
 
It was probably just a Beretta M9. Contrary to what you might read on the internet, there is not a whole lot of non-standard issued sidearms being used by the armed forces, with the exception of certain special forces units.
 
Isn't the BHP the Iraqi police / military sidearm?

It could have been a battlefield pickup.
 
Actually, the Iraqi Military sidearm is a locally-produced copy of the 9mm Beretta. I have no ideal what the police issues, but it's probably the Beretta copy.
 
Most likely he had a fullsize M-16 and wanted a smaller gun to clear rooms with, so he picked one up from somewhere. Can't soldiers bring their own handguns?
 
Can't soldiers bring their own handguns?
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For 99 percent of the soldiers out there the answer is "NO". There are just too many problems associated with letting soldiers carry privately owned weapons.

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According to Army regulations, the only soldiers allowed to carry privately owned weapons are General Officers. There are apparently some soldiers who ignore this rule, but if they were to be caught, they would lose their weapon at the very least, and at most be court-martialed. Most likely, CID would confiscate it and the GI would get an Article 15. Probably the most likely way a soldier would get in trouble is if he were caught by the MPs when they did the required customs check upon return stateside.

I do know one soldier who brought a Russian made .45 ACP revolver back from Afghanistan though. I have no idea what make it was, but he paid $100 for it in Bagram. The Afghanis were also offering AK-47's (real ones, not SAR-1's) for $400. IIRC, RPG-7's weren't much more than that. If only I'd had $400 cash and known that I was going to be flying back into a civilian airport and that no one was going to look to deeply into my bags when I told them where I was coming from and that I had 2 M-4's and an M-9 inside.:D


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I've seen a lot number of pics of Iraqi's with CZ-75s. Is iot possible that this was one of those as a "pick up".?
 
I read somewhere that the Iraqis had some FEG hi-power knock offs. It really takes some close looking over to tell the two apart, so that may have been what you saw.
 
Iraq apparently ordered HPs regularly, as in for decades.

Much like many parts of the world.

Though of course other pistols may or may not have been utilized as well.
 
Last I saw on the subject, something like 80 militaries around the world have used, or ar currently using, Browning High Power P35s.

So, there has to be a lot of them floating around.
 
I've seen several different segments showing Sadam shooting a pistol into the air to inspire a crowd or some of his troops. It was always a Beretta or Beretta copy.
 
Yeah, I saw it too. I'm glad they showed the tape a few times so I could focus in on it...looked definitely like a Hi Power not a Beretta.
 
Saw the same clip a couple of times and noticed the same thing.

Was definitely a Hi-Power.
Spur hammer cocked w/ finger off the trigger.
 
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I have seen a number of clips with Saddam firing weapons into the air, seems to like doing that!! The guns I have seen are a BHP, AK-47 and a Beretta clone (the name of which slips me at the moment). The BHP is the veteran in the camp whilst the Beretta clone is the new kid on the block. Odd, that an environment in which the Beretta is POS (according to some) would issue a clone of a Beretta. :scrutiny:
 
i saw it too. it was a hp,btw in the rumble in the desert 1 i carried a sig p226 with 12 mags i brought from home & i wasn't the only one. saddlebum
 
in the rumble in the desert 1 i carried a sig p226 with 12 mags i brought from home & i wasn't the only one. saddlebum
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That's pretty interesting. You would be the single instance I'm aware of.
How did you get it (and the mags) there? What happened when you rotated back to the States?
 
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