Canadian soldiers — and eventually sailors, aircrew and military police — will be getting new pistols to replace their Second World War-era handguns, the Department of National Defence said ...

Canadian military to destroy 11,000 Second World War-era pistols The move comes as the Canadian Forces confirmed it has received the final deliveries of a new 9-mm pistol as part of a $19.4 ...

Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of National Defence, announced a contract award valued at $3.2 million (USD) to provide the Canadian Army with new pistols and holster systems. Following an ...

The C22 Full Frame Modular Pistol is a variant of the SIG Sauer P320 put into Canadian Army service in 2023. It is a semi-automatic, short recoil-operated pistol that fires 9×19mm Parabellum ...

Part of the Canadian military's attraction to the SIG P320 is that in 2017, the U.S. military selected the pistol as its standard issue sidearm, redesignating it as the M17 and the M18 (depending ...

Around 9,500 Lee Enfields were transferred to military cadets, mostly as non-functional rifles, for use in drills or training. Approximately 5,000 of the rifles were gifted to serving Canadian Rangers ...

The Canadian military wants to replace its 1940s-era Browning handguns, ... Canada’s general service pistol is currently the 9mm Browning Hi-Power, ...

The Canadian Armed Forces began looking into purchasing replacement service pistols in the mid-2010s, but the process became bogged down. To fill the gap left by the aging Hi-Powers, the military ...

A Greater Victoria-based company has won a major contract from the federal government to supply new pistols to the Canadian ­military. MD Charlton Co. Ltd., which has its headquarters in Central ...

Re: Canadian military Second World War pistols slated for destruction will instead be sent to Ukraine, Sept. 13. We see clear evidence of the ingenuity and courage of the people of the Ukraine in ...