STANDARDIZING FIREARMS ACROSS A LAW ENFORCEMENT TEAM MIGHT SEEM LIKE A SIMPLISTIC EXERCISE. But as the Fayetteville, North Carolina, Police Department discovered, the positive effects can be far reaching. About two years ago, the Fayetteville Emergency Response Team (SWAT) acted on an initiative to standardize ammunition and weapons department-wide. At the time, the Emergency Response Team carried Glock 21s, with .45-caliber Automatic Colt Pistol (ACP) ammunition. The majority of the Fayetteville Police Department was carrying Glock 22s, with a few Glock 23s and 27s depending on assignment, each of which used .40-caliber Smith & Wesson ammunition. "Our main goal was to select a firearm that used .40 caliber S&W ammunition, which matched the rest of the Police Department," says Sgt. W. A. Holland, Training Sergeant with the Emergency Response Team.
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