August 24, 2012: The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 12,000 .45 (11.4mm) caliber pistols (for $1,900 each), mainly for use by its SOCOM (Special Operations Command) and recon troops. These MARSOC ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Most of the new weapons, finally dubbed the MK-23, went to the SEALs. The guns became “the first caliber .45 [caliber] … pistol to enter U.S. military service since ...

April 30, 2007: Congress has told the U.S. Air Force that they cannot go ahead and buy a new pistol, to replace the 9mm M9 everyone in the Department of Defense has been using for the past two decades ...

In the 1990s, the US Special Operations Command wanted an offensive handgun. Most handguns then issued to the military were intended to be defensive weapons for when a primary weapon, a rifle or other ...