They either fail to clear the weapon properly or simply assume it was unloaded, making no attempt to clear it all. • A Soldier was cleaning his 9 mm, failed to check if the weapon was loaded and ...

The U.S. Army began fielding M17 and M18 Modular Handgun Systems to the Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood in December to replace the force's aging Beretta M9, a weapon that has been in ...

The Army adopted the 9mm X M1 7 and XM18, made by Sig Sauer, in January 2017, as its new service handgun. But the Air Force started the program, which grew to a 680-page requirements document ...

This is part three of my gun safety series. ... St. Clair County Sheriff's Office firearms instructors Mike Doss and Paul Monk show how to clear the three most common stoppages of a semi-automatic ...

The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) just became the first unit to start fielding the Army’s new M17 Modular Handgun System. The Fort Campbell, Kentucky-based unit, received more than 2,000 ...