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To: RC one

“In a real gun fight, a revolver doesn’t give you a single advantage. fact is, it handicaps you.”

In a real one it actually gives you the advantage of speed, reliability, and stone cold simplicity. As for the magnum loads, they will feel like 22s. And though we all prepare for a band of al qeida frogmen, it will be a crapweasel at a distance between ATM and length of a car. There will be 2 or 3 rounds fired and no reload in something like 98%.

Go ready for multiple offenders training and carry two extra mags. There’s nothing wrong with that. But its very rare that you will be in a shooting. Its almost unheard of that it be a sustained shootout with multiple bad guys. And also, in multiple offenders, the lowly revolver is still good. When the resistance starts, you see a pattern. One falls dead and his accomplices beat feet and get the F outta dodge.
They don’t stay an fight to try to rescue their downed accomplice.


45 posted on 02/11/2017 7:57:34 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: DesertRhino
I only ever had to pull my gun once and there were three of them and I had a five shot J frame and I and my wife got lucky that day. I never carried it again after that. I carry a Glock 20 most of the time now. I like 10mm because it provides 357 magnum energy in a semi-auto platform. I would be perfectly fine with a Glock 17 or 19 though (9mm).

Multiple attacker homicides are increasingly normal these days. It's common enough that you almost have to assume that you will be facing more than one person.

For the reasons I have already stated and more, a high cap semi-auto is an infinitely better choice than a 5-6 shot revolver.

There's a reason that no cops, feds, military folks, or serious gunfighter types carry revolvers anymore. To be brutally honest, people that sit behind their key boards trying to convince other people that revolvers are somehow a better choice than a quality high cap semi-auto are dumba**es.

56 posted on 02/11/2017 9:11:16 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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