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Marines Allow Operators to Choose Glocks over MARSOC .45s (G-19 9mm are preferred)
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Posted on 02/28/2015 5:42:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux

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To: wjcsux

The 38 special was loaded with black powder the first year of its manufacture. The second year 1899, S&W shifted to smokeless propellant.


41 posted on 03/01/2015 2:16:40 AM PST by X Fretensis
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To: null and void

“The .38 Special the officers carried in the Philippines just wasn’t up to the job.”

It wasn’t a 38 special, it was a 38 long colt. By contrast, a 38 special is practically a magnum.


42 posted on 06/15/2015 9:23:01 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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Thanks.


43 posted on 06/15/2015 10:54:07 AM PDT by null and void (I wish we lived in less interesting times, but at least we have front-row seats.)
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