I needed to chew on this one a couple days...
There's fair indication of the practice of wining, dining, whoring, palm-greasing, etc... involved in it the military selection of this pistol with zero concern for finding technical benefits. There's also fair indication of a practice of forcing the end users to be the beta testers, resting on the laurels of past products, and wrapping the new turd in a rather a silly number of shiny exteriors while not offering anything worthwhile under the hood.
It would seem that, aside from the horrible injuries and deaths associated, I'm rather gleeful about watching those practices fall on their face.
True innovation and progress in this particular market is slow. The 1911 was THE big quantum leap, the Glock was the next. (The Walther PP might have been, but has been purged by that cruel bitch Evolution.) Most of everything else has been trying to find chinks in the armor of those two reigning systems - and mostly failing from a mechanical point of view. About the only real improvement I'm perceiving has been the ability to bolt lights and red dots to those two platforms.
But the industry has to try to find its money where it can, and peddle their wares via whatever tap dance is appropriate to promote around the fact they don't have the big innovation of the next 50 years on their hands. Sig seems to have crossed an ethical line in that process.
So, I guess I feel like we're at the point in the movie where the bad guy has slipped, started falling into the abyss, and the audience cheers. The only caveat here is that we're a little concerned that the bad guy's pistol will go off and hurt someone when he hits the pavement. (If anybody wants to perform the necessary steps to photoshop the end of Die Hard, I'll buy your next beer
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