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I think if you consider all the military production M9 variants as compared to those offered commercially by Phrobis, LanCay, Ontario, and Asian knock-offs, there are far more non-military contract variants out there, even though production of many commercial M9s was/is relatively limited. It is also interesting some of these commercial pattern bayonets manage to find their way into service use by our men in the field. There seems to be more latitude in allowing troops the use personal weapons in lieu of their issue ones. I have personally tried to concentrate my interest in military contract variants. However, there were several interesting commercial pattern M9s; primarily those made by Phrobis, Buck, and some LanCay, which I found hard to resist acquiring, and so I did.
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