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Air Force enacts service-wide inspections of M18 pistols

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The U.S. Air Force ordered a service-wide safety inspection of every single one of its M18 pistols after one discharged and killed an airman last month at an Air Force base. The decision, announced late last week, came more than a week after Airman Brayden Lovan was killed in an incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base involving a M18. Lovan, 21, died July 20 after a M18 pistol discharged. Lovan, who served with the 90th Security Forces Squadron, …
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The death and the connection of the weapon to it have been confirmed, but the exact sequence of events has not. According to the manufacturer, the weapons cannot be faulty. According to the company, accidents and legal cases are motivated only by greed or evasion of responsibility. The US armed forces and authorities are currently in a state of uproar over the Sig Sauer M17 and M18 military pistols, which were introduced in 2017, The War Zone re…

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Task & Purpose broke the news in on Sunday, August 3, 2025.
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