LEWISTON, Idaho – April 17, 2023 – Speer Ammunition was recently awarded the New York Police Department (NYPD) 9mm duty and training handgun ammunition contract for Speer 124-grain Gold Dot. The duty handgun contract with the largest law enforcement agency in the United States will supply this agency for up to five years with an expected quantity of several million rounds.
“We are excited to report the NYPD once again chose Speer Gold Dot 9mm 124-grain +P as their ammunition of choice,” said Speer’s Senior Director of Law Enforcement Ammunition Sales, Hal Price. “The approximate 36,000 officers will use this ammunition exclusively for duty and training. We are proud of this contract win, and we are excited to have the opportunity to continue to work with the NYPD.”
The partnership with Speer and NYPD, one of the country’s most recognizable, oldest, and prestigious law enforcement agencies, began in 2001.
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.
“The use of Gold Dot technology in this contract ammunition ensures the highest performance threshold and absolute confidence in performance,” continued Price. “We are extremely pleased with this prestigious contract award. It validates the high level of trust that our national law enforcement agencies have with our extremely reliable and innovative ammunition.”
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.
how about NOBODY give them arms or ammo until they follow the constitution & the Supreme court decision?!?!?!?
supreme court decision?!?!?
Maybe someone can come up with contact info for Hal Price.
With friends like speer……….
Yes! GovCo gets fifty round boxes of handgun ammo. Civilian peasants get twenty round boxes for the same price, maybe more. Citizens only deserve 40% of what GovCo gets for the same money. Looking at it another way, citizens get 60% less.
To be fair, Remingon, Federal, and Winchester all engage in that disgusting practice.
I won’t disagree with you one bit, MusicMan!
You don’t write-off your ammo and firearm purchases for family security and recreation? Don’t forget the expendable cleaning and maintenance items, brushes, swabs, oil, lube, brushes… Sights, batteries, tools, cans, ear plugs, earmuffs, range glasses…
To the “Good ole boys” at Speer, thanks for nothing!
That’s certainly a concern. That NY ticket pushers can’t stockpile ammo.
So why is the photograph showing a 223 round when the story is about 9mm?
Does the news outlets always have to have some kind of deception?
I thought it was a new experimental universal cartridge. Loaded into an AR capable of .223 or 5.56, it is 5.56. In a .223, it becomes a .223. Loaded into a 9mm magazine, it shrinks lengthwise and expands in diameter to 9mm. Ditto .40 cal!
“Speer R&D, bringing new things to a range near you!”
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