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I started my law enforcement career armed with a S&W Model 10. Didn't feel inadequately armed with it at the time, and wouldn't cry too much that I was at a statistical disadvantage if I was forced to give up my 9mm FN High Power for the rest of my life and only carry that old S&W Model 10...

Not to slag the 1911, particularly when I spent a lot of money to own the one I have. Instead, fascinated that the .45 ACP somehow or other won WWI... when our ground troops finally had boots on the ground for only the last 35 weeks or so of the war. While Germany was crumbling internally (and...

Your lecturing me with your Carrying a full size 10 with the same mag capacity as your average 9mm isn't a lesser tactical choice. It's a better one. and other parts of your post is what earned you the ridicule that you worked so hard to earn. But go ahead ignore me for the moment: explain to...

Here's a crazy idea: maybe because the companies manufacturing the service handgun ammunition in the other calibers tell their LEO agency customers that there is no significant difference in the terminal ballistics of those calibers. Is that a crazy radical idea, or does Occam's Razor come to...

Yep, blindly following the FBI... that must be it. I'm probably not the only one who knows many cops who moved to law enforcement after serving over in A'Stan and Iraq with the infantry, Ranger, etc. Police forces today are just full of those damned wimps! And the deployments I did, probably...

If you think I'm likely to end up in a gunfight with a grizzly bear in town here in Montana rather than the more likely scenario of having a problem with one of the homeless meth heads showing up here, then you think Montana is far more wild wild West than it is. That said, if your pitch is...

That could be true if your clear assumption that the exact same amount of research and R&D dollars is put in to the... let's say the big fat slow .45 ACP... as is put into the majority choice of law enforcement: 9mm. Where did you come by the information that confirmed that research and R&D...

my investigation for this piece tells me that it’s the .40. It’s just simple physics. Smells like well executed Caliber Wars clickbait - but it got me here. Almost like "what's the best oil for my Harley?" works. But I digress... If it's just "simple physics" - opposed to simple terminal...

In one sentence: Know ALL relevant laws in any jurisdiction you are in, including if you carry no weapons and will only defend yourself with your hands and feet.

I have been carrying a 69C FN High Power - the original civilian version after the internal extractor was eliminated - since the mid 70's. Both for military and police work and now in retirement as a slow moving civvy cut like a marshmallow. I don't have a "rotation" of carry guns. It's the...

The clue is that Marshall and Sanow's one shot stop study was published thirty years ago - aside from the fact that their methodology was mostly whatever anecdotal evidence they chose to use and what they rejected. BTW, how many times in police shootings do police fire just one shot rather than...

You appear to be having yourself a Midol Moment. My post that you're responding to wasn't written in response to anything you posted - unless you're also the Alan Rice whose post that was specifically responding to. In fact, if I check what I posted, I'm pretty sure I made absolutely no...

Really???? Would you care to share which manufacturer's terminal ballisticians/forensic pathologists working in R&D told you that? Somebody working in R&D at Federal, Winchester, Speer, etc whose job entails reviewing results from police use of their ammunition in the service calibers they...

We once in a while used to get a look at something like that doing Hollywood jumps i.e. no equipment other than main and reserve. Nice to not have another 100+ lbs strapped to your ass. Sometimes we even got to do one of those higher than 1,000' AGL...

There was some relevant information/confirmation in the article to go along with the repetitive advertising - I don't mind the advertising for SA when I'm voluntarily here on their website and reading their articles. But after retiring after decades of carrying a single action FN High Power in...

Overriding all of the article is the patchwork quilt of gun laws across this country. If you don't want to potentially experience the joys and cost of court time... know before you go. Here in Montana, I can open carry or carry concealed. Sometimes I do open carry but mostly I do not. In the...