In January 2017 it was announced that SIG Sauer had won the U.S. Military Modular Handgun System (MHS) contract to replace the Beretta M9 as the standard U.S. military sidearm, and later that year the U.S. Army announced the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions would be the first units to receive the M17. Only 3,000 of these pistols were returned to SIG Sauer for sale on the commercial market. The shipping box is a numbered match to the pistol and identifies it as "UDM17-9-SURPLUS" and contains two extra magazines, an extra recoil spring, cable lock, and papers. Per the included certificate, this pistol was part of the initial deployment of the U.S. M17 MHS Pistol in American service. An included copy of a Department of Defense Small Arms/Light Weapons Registry letter states this pistol was shipped to Army General Supply (Logistics Modernization Program Stock Records) from Sig Sauer Inc. on October 26, 2017. On November 3, 2017 it was received by Army General Supply (Logistic Modernized Program (LMP) Stock Records) in Anniston Alabama from Army Contracting Command-Picatinny (ACC-PICA), Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. On March 31, 2019 the pistol was reconciled by Army General Supply in Anniston, Alabama. On April 24, 2019 the Defense Logistics Agency Distribution-Anniston in Anniston, Alabama shipped the pistol outside of the Department of Defense to Sig Sauer Inc., Newington New Hampshire.