National Post article on Canada's "dangerouly unreliable" BHPs

r34skyline said:
Similar to the marines where your sidearm can be your personal buy? Not gonna lie I would be ecstatic if that happened. As for the c7... it does work. But a c8 would be more ideal.
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The Canadian Expeditionary Force required officers to buy their own sidearm. Additionally, some trades (such as drivers) were allowed to purchase their own too.

We may have to look to the past to move into the future. But the PTB's would never allow this, since soldiers need to be trained on the same equipment the guy next to them is using.
 
There are people in this site that have served and I would not pretend to know more than their first hand knowledge.


However, if the BHP needs replacing, the U.S. has done extensive testing and chose the Sig and the British have done extensive testing and chose the Glock, I think we should just choose one of those and put all the money into buying them now instead of into a ten year research plan. Sounds like a ten year, expensive program to keep equipment out of the hands of soldiers.
 
City Boy said:
There are people in this site that have served and I would not pretend to know more than their first hand knowledge.


However, if the BHP needs replacing, the U.S. has done extensive testing and chose the Sig and the British have done extensive testing and chose the Glock, I think we should just choose one of those and put all the money into buying them now instead of into a ten year research plan. Sounds like a ten year, expensive program to keep equipment out of the hands of soldiers.
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You're missing the point...
The currently issued BHP's are exactly what the Canadian gov't wants out in the field.
Gawd forbid Canadian Forces personnel have a weapon at hand they can rely upon. A weapon they might actually be able to use kill an enemy combatant.
It's far more liberal to let the enemy live to fight another day while at the same time reduce/deny benefits/compensation to CF personnel.
 
Why don't they - the government just buy some Glock 17s or 19s and be done with it . or order some CZ 75s or 85s . tried and true guns.
 
Just have Colt Canada make new ones to the same Imperial dimensions, with the improvements of the Mk III, like dovetailed 3-dot tritium night sights, ambi safety, contoured synthetic grips, baked epoxy-over Parkersied finish, plus other improvements from previous generations like a smaller no-bite ring hammer, eliminating the "thumbprint" groove on the slide and smoothing the feed ramp. And make five parts kit for every complete pistol plus a support chain for new parts.
 
cement head said:
Why don't they - the government just buy some Glock 17s or 19s and be done with it . or order some CZ 75s or 85s . tried and true guns.
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That would probably be the easiest and cheapest solution, but they want them made in Canada by Colt Canada, which most manufacturers would scoff at.
 
When I was first handed a BHP while in uniform, it was 1992. The pistol was completely clapped out and unreliable. The fact that we are two and a half decades past that - and spent a dozen of those years with significant forces deployed in combat roles in the sandbox - makes me ashamed.
 
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