User:US Secret Service

About Me

I am a guy in my mid-20s, hailing from the eastern United States. I'm currently pursuing a career in law-enforcement, and have received some law-enforcement training, including familiarity with, use of, and safe handling of firearms. As my user name indicates, I have a passion for the United States Secret Service, and have spent much time researching the training that agents go through, and their collective role as a federal agency. I have a knowledge of their current weaponry, and a more general knowledge of the agency's past weapons arsenal. This has allowed me to rapidly identify factual errors of USSS firearms portrayed in movies and TV shows, which I use to help improve IMFDB pages.

For The Record...

The actual United States Secret Service has the following weapons in their current arsenal:

• SIG-Sauer P229: (.357 hollowpoint) This is the standard sidearm for all Special Agents and Uniformed Division officers. Agents and officers are required to qualify for this pistol monthly.^{[1][2][4][5][7]}
• Remington Model 870 shotgun: (12 gauge, polymer stock and grips, 00 buckshot/steel slugs) Agents and officers are required to qualify on this weapon quarterly.^[2][4]
• Heckler & Koch MP5-A3 submarine gun: (9mm hollowpoint, Navy trigger group, double-magged) This is the standard submachine gun for Special Agents and Uniformed Division officers. Agents and officers are required to qualify for this submachine gun quarterly. ^[1][2][4]
• FN Herstal P90 submachine gun: (5.7x28mm FMJ, triple-railed, scope attachment) Favored by the Uniformed Division's Emergency Response Team (ERT).^[2][5]
• KAC SR-16 assault carbine (5.56mm NATO FMJ, RIS foregrip, scope attachment) Favored by the Counter-Assault Team (CAT).^[5]
• Custom Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle "JAR" ("just another rifle"): (.300 Winchester Magnum FMJ, Remington action, Schneider barrel, McMillan stock, custom scope) Used by the a Uniformed Division's Countersiper Support Unit (CSU). (Special thanks to commando552)^[8]
• KAC SR-25 Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle: (7.62x51mm NATO FMJ, custom scope) Used by the Uniformed Division's Countersniper Support Unit (CSU).^[5]

Notes

Wikipedia mentions that the Service recently adopted the FN Five-SeveN pistol as a sidearm. I have been unable to confirm this via pictures or video sources.

The MP5K is often depicted in movies and TV shows as being a weapon used by the Secret Service, probably first seen in Air Force One, and seen in many films since (including The Sentinel, 24, Salt, and many others). I can categorically state that the Secret Service has never used the "-K" version of the MP5. Rather, they use the Navy version of the -A3 with double magazines. This has been confirmed by many pictures and documentaries. Though it was probably thought that the "-K" was used because of its concealability, the Service has never used it, likely because the range of the full version is greater.

References

^[1] National Geographic: Inside the U.S. Secret Service. Video. 2003.

^[2] National Geographic: Secret Service Files. Video. 2010.

^[3] Emmett, Daniel. In Arm's Length. Text. 2012.

^[4] Holden, Henry M. To Be A U.S. Secret Service Agent. Text. 2005.

^[5] Kessler, Ronald. Inside The President's Secret Service. Text. 2009.

^[6] Petro, Joseph. Standing Next To History. Text. 2005.

^[7] United States Secret Service. secretservice.gov. Web.

^[8] Law Enforcement Snipers. Video. 2009.

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