Sean C. Morgan
Sweet Home Police Department plans to switch the caliber of handguns its officers carry, department personnel told the City Council last week.
SHPD has used .40-caliber handguns – fourth-generation Glock 23 and Glock 22 models – since 2011. They plan to switch to 9 mm guns, fifth-generation Glock 17 and Glock 19.
Officer Dave Hickox, department range master and lead firearms instructor, explained the reasoning to at the council’s regular meeting on…