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Story of a Gun (the horrible eeeeeevil 9mm!!!)
Newsweak via MSNBC ^
| 23 April 2007
| Jerry Adler
Posted on 04/23/2007 8:57:22 AM PDT by Moose4
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I guess Mr. Adler figures it would've been better if Cho had walked into Norris Hall with an M1911A1.
}:-)4
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posted on
04/23/2007 8:57:24 AM PDT
by
Moose4
To: Moose4
Personally I love my Glock 19. It is a great little pistol. And I ain't giving it up!
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posted on
04/23/2007 8:59:20 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Moose4
This VT thing finally got me off my arse to buy that pistol I’ve been saying I was gonna get for 3 years (I’m a long gun guy, but the VT incident and the ensuing MSM hysterics over it convinced me I needed a hogleg). Several friends have sold me on the 1911-A1. I’m shopping around now.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:02:44 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Moose4
There go those guns again, floating around, pulling their own triggers with absolutely no controlling force or intent to kill behind them.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:02:58 AM PDT
by
Quick or Dead
(Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
To: Rummyfan
I got a good deal on a 1969 Makarov right before the AWB in the early 90s. It’s a nice little piece resmebling a ppk and it’s quite accurate after being used by Russian cops for some years.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:04:08 AM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(The Right Brothers Rock)
To: Moose4
I didn't read the entire article, just the excerpt.
BUT...
A person who didn't really comply with the spirit of the law (the gun shop salesman) sold a bunch of guns to people that immediately *Broke* existing laws by reselling them to a bunch more people who immediately *Broke* existing laws by using them to shoot people.
And the answer to this? I expect, more laws.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:04:30 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: Moose4
it [the 9mm handgun] delivers a fearsome kick, which leads to anticipatory flinching, Not in my experience. ....not even ultra-light nines.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:04:46 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Moose4
My wife has an XD9 (awfully nice shooting gun). Had I known they would turn out to be so evil, I’d have bought another one.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:05:11 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: Mr. Mojo
My 5 fool 1 inch, 102 lb wife seems to manage pretty effectively.
And IMHO, recoil can be an accuracy issue in some of the larger calibers.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:06:48 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: Mr. Mojo
That’s what I’ve heard. I’ve never fired a 9mm, the only handguns I’ve ever fired have been a small .380 semi-auto and a .38 revolver. I had no trouble controlling the recoil on either one (even though I was a lousy shot), and from what I’ve heard, the recoil on a 9mm isn’t really much worse than a .38 Special, is it?
Around here on FR, on the “help me buy a gun” threads, seems like the 9mm Parabellum isn’t a good self-defense round. .45 ACP is better, I guess?
}:-)4
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:07:31 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Yoiks, and away!)
To: Moose4
I imagine that any firearm dealer here would question an attempted purchase of 25 pistols. Probably would refuse the sale.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:09:56 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(3 May '07 3:14 PM)
To: tcostell
"My 5 fool 1 inch, 102 lb wife"Ya better hope and pray she don't read that my son, since she can manage those higher calibers rather well.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:10:03 AM PDT
by
spunkets
("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
To: Moose4
But it's ubiquitous on the street, from gang-ridden South L.A.where in one area, patrolled by the LAPD's Southeast Division, it figured in 23 of 58 gun homicides last yearto the ghettos of Philadelphia, where homicide detective John Ramsey estimates that "about 60 percent of the homicides I work on involve a 9-millimeter." Well, now, a liberal mind reading this would conclude that we could reduce homicides by almost 50% in SE-LA and by 60% in Philly just by banning 9mm handguns!
Oh the simplicity of it all!!
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:10:24 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Encourage illegal immigration! Maybe you too can be hit and killed by a drunk driver!)
To: tcostell
And IMHO, recoil can be an accuracy issue in some of the larger calibers.
Not with my S&W 1911A1. And I ain't the burliest guy out there by any means. Having said that, if someone wants to legally purchase weapons and then illegally resell them, how is passing MORE laws going to resolve that issue? Gee, how about enforcing the over 20K laws we already have on the books?
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:10:25 AM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
To: wbill
Cinthia McCarthy is on a communist rampage to take guns but protect your second amendment right to go hunting.... (yes she expects us to believe that)
SHE HAS (R) DINGLE on board with this!
The MSM is trying to spin this as if the new AWB (permanent) is “bi partisan”!
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:12:23 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Mr. Mojo
Took my mom and sis shooting yesterday. Second time for mom, first for sis.
Had them firing .38Special and .44Special out of S&W .357Mag and .44Mag.
They loved it. Mom was a deadeye too with that .44. Both were hitting the targets with every shot at 7yds.
My wife is recoil sensitive and loves her Glock 19 (9mm).
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:15:02 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Encourage illegal immigration! Maybe you too can be hit and killed by a drunk driver!)
To: Moose4
To: Moose4
The changeover to [9mm handguns] began after a notorious 1986 shoot-out in Miami between three carloads of FBI agents and two heavily armed robbery suspects. Two agents (as well as the suspects) were killed, leading to a demand for more firepower for officers, who still typically carried the venerable .38-caliber Police Special. Inaccurate. The ineffective rounds used by the feds in that infamous shootout were in fact 114 gr. 9mm rounds, and the subsequent changes were to a heavier round (I think 124 gr.) of the same caliber.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:20:03 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: randog
The 1911 is a great pistol, but you have to constantly practice with the thing to be able to hit anything.
For a good personal defense pistol - I’d go with a Sig.
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:21:39 AM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: RightWhale
I imagine that any firearm dealer here would question an attempted purchase of 25 pistols. Probably would refuse the sale. As someone in sales, the only question that comes to my mind is "Cash, check, or charge?"
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posted on
04/23/2007 9:22:44 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(I like Fred, but WILL be supporting the Republican nominee.)
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