Posted on 02/22/2003 8:34:22 PM PST by 2nd_Amendment_Defender
A few Islamikazis in the kindergartens and night clubs and that may chnge over night.
And I sure do love these gun threads!
The most likely response will be for the gun grabboids to try to ban more guns from Americans.
Any functional handgun is better than no gun at all. Keep in mind that your hollowpoints are only going to expand 60% of 70% of the time. Why hit them with two or three rounds when one .45 ACP or .40 S&W round will do the job? Keep in mind also everytime your discharge your gun in self-defense you may have a possible lawsuit on your hands if your rounds miss and hit an innocent bystander. My thoughts why I would not use a 9 millimeter for concealed carry.
True,but the pistol represents a spare weapon in case yours breaks or takes a hit that makes it inoperatable. Everybody has their own idea about what's best,but I carried a 4 inch model 10 S&W loaded with tracers in my left shirt pocket,over my heart. The butt was all that stuck out,and I had a lanyard cord tied to that that went around my neck. I even had cause to use it once to suppress fire as I hauled butt away from a ambush site with what I thought was a malfunctioning M-16. I discovered later that the only thing wrong with the M-16 was that I must have tried to load a mag in it backwards or upside down. All I knew at that time was that the click I heard when I dropped the hammer on a empty chamber was the loudest noise I had ever heard in my life,and I needed to get the hell out of Dodge right NOW. I was the only one left on the ambush site where we ambushed a couple of companies of NVA,and I had been providing covering fire so everybody else could retreat once the NVA started to get their stuff together and return fire. NOT the right time to set down and field strip your weapon,or even look to see if the magazine you jammed up there at about 3,000 mph was actually still in the rifle. Nope,it was clearly time to panic.
HorseHillary! If you are in a fire fight and the situation is desperate enough you are using a handgun,you had damn sure better be able to point-shoot it. People who screw around with sight alignment end up getting killed. Using your sights is ok if you are behind a barricade or in a similar situation,but face to face with a armed bad guy out in the open,you need to point shoot.
Maybe,but anybody who is serious about shooting needs to reload,and not all autoloaders feed wadcutters real well. This isn't a problem with a revolver,and a wadcutter is a MUCH more effective bullet than the RN acp load. Yeah,I know about hollowpoints,but my theory is start with a big enough bullet,and then put it where you want it.
If you're going to a fist fight or knife fight -- the pistol is an ideal weapon..
(Remember rule 1- NEVER give the enemy an even break.. Do NOT "fight fair", fight to win)
If you're anticipating a real fire fight with armed men, a Cobra Chopper or Puff the Magic Dragon was the preferred weapon.......
If YOU have to carry everything yourself --- leave the pistol behind and carry more food for your rifle and pack grenades... If you're the type to commit suicide - your knife or your last grenade works nicely....or simply stand up!
If you're walking with 'yards ----- give them the bulky/heavy shit and pack your side arm (if it makes you sleep better)--- along with your weapon....
For some unclear reason --- prisoners always seemed to be more intimidated by a pistol in the ear during questioning.
Other than that - they didn't seem worth the carry.
Note -- Our M60 was manned by a kid that couldn't have weighed more than 135/145lbs... and about 5'7''.
Yet - he somehow managed to carry his weapon, lots of onboard ammo, his knife, a few grenades and a side arm..
He was 20' tall in a fire fight ---- but we nearly lost him every wet crossing..... he sank like a stone!
He constantly bitched about his feet or legs hurting....I wonder why?
Semper Fi
The most likely response will be for the gun grabboids to try to ban more guns from Americans.
At some point folks are just going to quit working so hard to draw distinctions between our enemies foreign and domestic.
For rare individuals such as myself who had a Marine Corps gunny sgt. for a father and mentor and shot his heavy magnum when you were 5yrs old without ear protection from the front porch while sitting on his knee, you would prefer the .44 magnum and would be fond of the Ruger Super Balckhawk and Redhawk. You would prefer the Super Blackhawk for its accuracy and simple ellegance. You would load your own and have a favorite round for each occasion such as the Keith 250gr SWC (hard cast 50/50 wheel weight and lynotype mix)loaded with 9.7gr of Unique for fun plinking days or loaded with 22gr of 2400 for the big bang buck days. For accuracy would load the 210gr Sierra JSP or JHP with 26gr of WW296 with the CCI-300 large pistol primers. Very good accuracy out to 150 yards and even at 100 yards you can hold a 4" group. For the bahemath stopper you would load the depleted uranium secret load you share with nobody becuase it may hurt others who attempt to load and shoot a round handled only by rare individuals who know the secret hand shake and can therefore pass on the load data for.
Peace brother!
Spodefly don't miss! ;)
The most likely response will be for the gun grabboids to try to ban more guns from Americans.
Possibly, in some jurisdictions. But at some point gun owners, esp veterens, will simply not comply. It will start "LA Korean style" with people guarding their kids schools open carry, and it will spread, with police told to back off, and "the 2nd amendment and my DD214 are all the papers I need."
Regards
J.R.
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