Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Your picks for the next US service pistol.

I can only offer two thoughts.
One is that the 9mm is here to stay for most of them. Specialized units can, of course, pick and hopefully get whatever they want.
But.... if they go to something else, it has to be as shootable as the 9mm and offer something more in the way of performance.
And that brings us to the 5.7 FN. With the right ammo, it will shoot through some, perhaps most battlefield body armor. That right there means it's got something special. Then you can add that it kills better than the standard hardball 9mm ammo. Even with non expanding bullets. The current FNH guns are lighter than the M9's and hold more ammo as well. If the current FN pistol has any faults, I haven't heard of them. E