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Looking into a 556 platform and noticed that the M400 comes in version that can only be sold to Law Enforcement, Military, First Responders and so forth. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that it comes with a carry handle.
Do you really need years of specialized training to be qualified to use a carry handle?
Looking into a 556 platform and noticed that the M400 comes in version that can only be sold to Law Enforcement, Military, First Responders and so forth. As far as I can tell, the only difference is that it comes with a carry handle.
Do you really need years of specialized training to be qualified to use a carry handle?
You have to be properly trained on how to hold the carry handle and run away while wearing all your tacticool taxpayer paid for military gear you'd be wearing as a park ranger.
It is probably a rifle produced specifically to be sold at a discount through SIG's Individual Officer's Program (IOP) that allows military and police and other first responders to buy firearms at a significant discount. These guns should have a model number that begins for a "W". So a P226 pistol would typically be listed as "W226".
Since dealers get these guns at a markdown in order to sell them at a markdown to police/military/etc., if the dealer sells them for regular price, they are getting an unfair profit off the gun as it was produced specifically for sales at a discount to the people who can afford them the least. SIG goes after dealers for violating that policy.
This sounded familiar to me so I checked my photos of my Sig boxes. I take pictures of any of my firearms box labels, especially if the box is just cardboard and can't be kept ( I know it's OCD ).
My M400 came labeled this way. As far as I can tell there is no difference whatsoever.
So I started going through more of my pictures of box labels ( as I said OCD ) and I found another "W" prefixed Sig. So I guess a few of them get sold to the general public.
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