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Don’t Let Magazine Limits Undermine Your Defense

I have to agree. I pride myself on my low risk lifestyle. I carried a 1911 for decades as a younger man doing a lot more stupid things than I do now and never felt disadvantaged. I agree more ammo is always better if you are in an actual gunfight, but I weigh that against ease of carry and most importantly confidence with the weapon. I dabbled with Glocks with a Trijicon RMR in the 90's and I like the fact the red dot took my aging eyes out of the equation. But at the end of the day, I shoot a 1911 better than anything else. That confidence put the 1911 back on my hip. It just feels right, even though I have to dress around it.
 
I have always had it stressed to carry a spare mag. In case of malfunction, ya miss (sorry gang but 70% of the shots trained law enforcement officers take are misses). I agree with the six should do. In most cases...the display of the weapon ends the threat.
But in multiple decades of public safety, I have rarely seen a situation that goes as planned.
 
More is always better. Carry as much as you reasonably can.
No one has ever been in shoot out and wish they had less ammo.
I too, carry a 1911 sometimes, but when I do, I carry a spare mag. I do shoot a 1911 better than anything else, but I still prefer more than 7/8 rounds.

Here's how I see, statistically, we're unlikely to even need our firearms at all. And even less likely to need to shoot more than a few rounds. Yet we carry anyways. So we seen the chance is slim, but never zero.

But yet so many feel a few rounds is enough. While that's probably true, there's not guarantee.
 
For sure carry an extra mag. Generally, the fastest way to clear a malfunction with a semi auto is to drop the mag, rack the slide and reload. One does not have time to dissect the jam to figure out why it happened, the important thing is to get back into the fight. Typically a speed reload is your ticket back into the game.
 
I agree that more ammo is better. And carrying a reload is a good idea. But is it really necessary? It seems like the mindset these days is that you gotta have at least 15 rounds or you're gonna die. :rolleyes:
I've been carrying revolvers and single stack autos most of my life and never felt under gunned.
 
I've posted this before but I think it's applicable here.

I'm a firm believer that you should carry whatever you're comfortable carrying.

Having said that. according to the CDC.

In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides,

49,000 in a country of 340 million people? Your odds of being involved in a shooting in America are right up there with winning the lottery.

80% of the murders that are committed in this country involving a firearm are committed by somebody who already has a prior felony conviction. And most of the time they're killing another Criminal( FBI Uniform Crime Report)

According to the Kleck study 90% of Citizen involved self-defense incidents end with no shots fired.

I had a friend who worked as a police officer and then after retirement from the police department as a magistrate in South Carolina.

Across the span of both of his careers he investigated or adjudicated 200 homicides. Of those 200 he stated that ONE of them involved more than eight shots being fired among all parties involved.

According to him the one involved the killer standing over the corpse and emptying his magazine into it.

I have been a witness to (as opposed to a participant in) four shooting incidents in my lifetime. None of them lasted longer than 30 seconds . None of them involved more than 10 rounds being fired. And all four of them by the time I got myself behind some good hard cover it was over.

So given that most of us aren't even going to fire the first shot ever I have to say that there are things way more important than capacity.

I still believe what I posted above but I also want to point out. There is a psychologist named Dr Glenn E Meyer, if any of you participate on The High Road or Pistol Forum he goes by the username GEM.

He is stated numerous times that if those of us who are Second Amendment advocates continue to say things like three shots 3 seconds 3 ft or Advocate that "High Capacity" magazines are for people who can't shoot, the people who are trying to disarm us will use our own words against us. At some point the argument is going to come up that even going to Gun Owners say you don't need more than 10.

So we need to advocate for people being able to carry whatever size they're Magazine they're Comfortable carrying even if it's 100 round drum
 
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Grayfox said:
I agree that more ammo is better. And carrying a reload is a good idea. But is it really necessary? It seems like the mindset these days is that you gotta have at least 15 rounds or you're gonna die. :rolleyes:
I've been carrying revolvers and single stack autos most of my life and never felt under gunned.
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An overwhelming percentage of the time a firearm isn't really necessary either.
 
HayesGreener said:
As an LEO my philosophy was, there are only two occasions when one can have too much ammo.

That said, as a civilian I am perfectly confident that my 1911 or P220 in .45 and two spares will get me through any eventuality. Now if I were going down to St Louis in Bassbob's neck of the woods I might bring an AR...
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As it turns out I found myself back up in the city this afternoon armed only with 3 knives. It's not like I was back out on the streets working though.

Most of the time these days I have my Masada which holds 13 and a spare 13 rd. mag on my person. Another extra mag in the vehicle somewhere. I was supposed to get my 2 new 17 rd. mags for it today, but knowing they were coming via the USPS I already figured they wouldn't come. And they didn't. My guess is Monday or Tuesday. At which time I will carry a spare 17 rd. mag.
 
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