Why does nypd use 9mm

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Recruits, who are issued a service weapon in the academy at no cost, get to pick among the Glock 17 and two other guns that have been offered for years — the compact Glock 19 and the Sig Sauer P Most are picking the Glock 17, Caroli said. As the firearms landscape changed along with the scope of what a big city police officer had to be prepared to deal with changed, so did the guns they were permitted to carry. The Model 36 was also issued to female police officers as duty sidearms instead of the larger Smith or Colt revolvers.

While the Service Six was most commonly chambered in. Going by the rule book, while revolvers were standard issue, NYPD officers were not permitted to use speedloaders, instead required to carry loose cartridges in a much derided belt-mounted dump box. Additionally, many officers carried a smaller revolver as a backup gun, sometimes using their off-duty handgun to fill this role.

Nearly a century after the department first issued a sidearm to its officers, it mandated after much debate among department officials, unions, and legislators that the NYPD would officially switch from revolvers to semi-auto handguns chambered in 9mm, mostly to bring the department in line with the types of firearms they had to contend with on the street and with other federal agencies and large police departments.

Officers will be required to go through a 3-day transition course to semi-automatic pistols. There is also an accessory rail in front of the trigger guard to attach a flashlight or laser sight. The barrel length is just shy of 4.

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