Speer Ammunition Awarded Contract to Provide Duty Ammunition to the French Police

Speer Ammunition Awarded Contract to Provide Duty Ammunition to the French Police, iStock-497343320
Speer Ammunition Awarded Contract to Provide Duty Ammunition to the French Police, iStock-497343320

U.S.A.-(AmmoLand.com)- Speer Ammunition was recently awarded the French Police 9mm duty handgun ammunition contract for Speer 124-grain Gold Dot. The duty handgun contract will supply this agency for up to four years with an expected quantity of 20 million rounds.

“We are extremely pleased with this prestigious contract award,” said Speer’s President Jason Vanderbrink. “It validates the high level of trust the international law enforcement agencies have with our extremely reliable and innovative products.”

The Gold Dot ammunition will be fielded by the French National Police, the National Gendarmerie, Customs Police, and the Penitentiary Administration totaling more than 250,000 individuals.

“The use of Gold Dot technology in this contract ammunition ensures the highest performance threshold and absolute confidence in performance,” said Vice President of Law Enforcement, Government, and International Sales David Leis. “We are proud to produce ammunition that meets and exceeds our customer’s strict requirements.”

Speer Gold Dot has set an industry benchmark for both self-defense and duty use, earning the trust of consumers and law enforcement world-wide. The bullet features a pressure-formed lead core that is bonded to an extremely uniform jacket a single atom at a time that virtually eliminates separation on impact for more retained weight and consistent penetration depths. The Gold Dot hollow-point design expands consistently through a full range of barriers. Reliable ignition and cycling are delivered thanks to sealed primers and nickel-plated brass.

Speer ammunition can be found at dealers nationwide. For more information on all products from Speer or to shop online, visit www.speer.com


About Speer Ammunition

Speer’s reputation for making the world’s finest component bullets and loaded ammunition goes all the way back to 1943. That’s when Vernon Speer started building bullets because reloaders couldn’t get the components they needed from ammo companies during World War II. Although he initially focused on hunting rifle bullets, he also built the first mass-produced jacketed handgun bullets for hunting and law enforcement. In the 1960s, he put some of those bullets into loaded ammunition in the now-famous Lawman® line. And today, Speer Gold Dot® is the most trusted duty ammunition for law enforcement. We offer the same loads to civilians for personal protection that’s simply beyond compare. We still manufacture our products in the small city of Lewiston, Idaho. The original product lines have been expanded and new ones added. But through the changes, our formula for success has been constant: Determination, self-reliance and independence that show in all of our ammunition and components.Speer

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Montana454Casull

Why is it American companies can manufacture ammo for foriegn countries but they have failed to provide primers for American reloaders ? It appears to be a case of ” greedy basturds ” Total bullshit !

PAF145

The French police need no ammo – europe is constantly used as an example of a wonderful gun free zone

H Allen

Well now, isn’t that just fluffy fine and dandy for Speer/CCI. All the while, I can’t find small pistol primers for love or money. No, hold on. I can buy plenty of those sub-standard Russian Murom primers — if I’m willing to pay $145 for 1,000 of them! Just what the hell is going on here? Russia’s supposed to be the greatest evil force in the world for its invasion of Ukraine, but I have to line their pockets in order to load ammo so I can shoot??? And Speer is sending four million rounds of loaded ammo to the… Read more »

ras52

20 million small pistol primers that could have gone to American reloaders in those 4 years!

H Allen

I’m pretty honked off about this myself. I just wrote about how the only way I can reload for myself is to pay $145 for 1,000 Russian Murom primers. Russian! The irony is too thick to take in! I confess, I bought some. I had to if I wanted to shoot at all last summer. And about half if those Russian primers’ separated when I went to de-cap my spent cases, leaving the sides of the primer cups stuck, which meant trashing otherwise perfectly good cases. When AmmoLand posts primer “bargains” from Brownell’s, there aren’t any left in stock by… Read more »

ras52

Check Natchez website, they often have primers. I got some last week with free haz mat! Good luck!

PistolGrip44

There will be lots of ammo in the Streets of Paris after the french toast police drop it and run.

Miles8n

20 million rounds. Targets in the shooting range will be happy.

RichDD

Well, much like here, it will never get used.

Stag

So Speer supports gun control. Yet another company I can add to the list.