I first heard about the M9 in 1985, when the Army first issued it to replace its previous gun the Colt M1911, reminding me of my grandfather who served in the World War II. As a captain in the Army, he likely used the Colt, which was issued to officers.
The first time I saw an M9 was two years later, when I caught the Warner Brothers action movie “Lethal Weapon” starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Gibson played Martin Riggs, a crazed cop and Vietnam vet with a mane-like mullet. Gibson’s lethal weapon was the M9 and he ribbed his older colleague for using a revolver, noting that, “a lot of old timers carry those.”
In the most dramatic scene, a helicopter carrying a sniper escapes from the edge of a cliff and Riggs fires furiously at the big chopper with his little black M9.
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