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Smith& Wesson lose contract
njretcop
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N.J. State Police, gun firm agree to cancel purchase TRENTON - The New Jersey State Police and the manufacturer of new handguns that jammed repeatedly during trooper training have reached an agreement to cancel the purchase of all 3,200 service weapons, state officials said yesterday. The agency had agreed to pay Smith & Wesson Corp. $1.3 million for the Model 99 9mm sidearms and some magazine cartridges delivered earlier this year to barracks around the state. All but $377,000 was paid, according to the state Department of Law and Public Safety. State police recalled all the pistols in March because about 10 percent of them malfunctioned during training. Under an agreement that Smith & Wesson reached with Attorney General John J. Farmer Jr. and State Police Superintendent Col. Carson J. Dunbar Jr., the contract is officially canceled and the guns will be returned. State police can now select and buy new weapons. In the meantime, troopers have been using their old service weapons, Heckler and Koch pistols.
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Guns don't kill people, it's the bullets.. stupidI am the NRAnjretcop@keepandbeararms.com
c Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.
Guns don't kill people, it's the bullets.. stupidI am the NRAnjretcop@keepandbeararms.com
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