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3) The M9 Beretta 9mm: Mixed bag. Good gun, performs well in desert environment; but they all hate the 9mm cartridge. The use of handguns for self-defense is actually fairly common. Same old story on the 9mm: Bad guys hit multiple times and still in the fight.
Actually the M16 and M4 also suffer from this exact same problem in closer quarters. The 5.56 just doesn't cut it when Haji is taking a point blank death shot at you. As a result, most of the spec op, merc, and secret squirrel crowd is using a variety of 7.62 weapons to included looted AK's. What is even worse is the 9mm SMG's (for example, the modify DoE M4) ... talk about useless. "I think everyone understands that it's getting better every day. Or course, every nation that's got IEDS and drive-by shootings and suicide bombers definitely got some security issues" -LTC Gibler, Mosul, IQ 05MAY30 You Think?