The Army‘s Criminal Investigation Division is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information on 31 M17 pistols that went missing from Fort Moore in Georgia.
Investigators were notified May 16 that the pistols had been reported missing from the Crescenz Consolidated Equipment Pool on the base, and the firearms are believed to have gone missing sometime between March and May, according to an Army CID reward flyer posted on Reddit.
“The Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Moore is [sic] aware of the incident, which remains under investigation,” the center’s public affairs office said in an email Thursday to Military.com.
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The reward poster hadn’t been posted on the official CID website Thursday, but had been circulated across the Fort Moore installation and among local law enforcement, according to one person familiar with the investigation but who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The M17 is a 9 mm Sig Sauer pistol with a 17-round magazine capacity. The handgun was adopted by the Defense Department in 2017 to eventually replace the M9 Beretta pistol.
The civilian version of the M17, the P320-M17, retails for around $650.
According to the Army’s regulation governing the physical security of weapons, they must be accounted for by serial number each month, except for those that are “boxed and banded,”…
