everyone will use the same caliber ammunition<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cHey man, I\u2019ll take some weed, a couple hits of coke and throw in a box of nines.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0One stop shopping, like having a Wal-Mart in the trunk of a tricked-out Buick.\u00a0 Handy.<\/p>\nLet\u2019s not kid ourselves, we know what\u2019s at work here and it has nothing to do with ballistic science.<\/p>\n
John Browning gave the world true pistol stopping power when he invented the .45 ACP and nothing invented since is as effective at delivering raw knock-down power in a controllable low maintenance hand-held package.<\/p>\n
But it takes a big hand to wrap around the .45, a strong grip to control it, and strong will to calmly place 7 shots in vital spots rather than spray-and-pray in a panic.\u00a0 The .45 is fine for well-trained soldiers which is why special forces love it; not so good for small FBI chicks which is why the feds first adopted the watered-down .40 S&W and now are going to the even softer 9mm.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t dispute that modern 9mm home defense hollow points work better than 9mm military ball ammo.\u00a0 They should: they\u2019re designed for a different purpose.\u00a0 The military round wounds a guy so his buddies must carry him to the field medics, taking three soldiers out of a battle that my soldiers then win by attrition.\u00a0 The home-defense round puts a guy on the floor now, because I have no soldiers and can\u2019t afford to suffer any attrition. \u00a0So sure, the modern 9mm self-defense round works better than the old 9mm military round.\u00a0 But is it better enough to switch down from the .40 S&W, must less the venerable .45 ACP?<\/p>\n
Let the argument begin.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The amount of training it takes to overcome the natural human response to an adrenaline dump is amazing – and they’re finding out that people who get through selection for units like the SEALs, Delta, the SAS and the like are born with a biochemical trait that allows them to drive, rather than be driven by, adrenaline.<\/p>\n
All by way of saying – being a regular schlub who is most definitely driven by\u00a0<\/em>adrenaline, I’ll take a big magazine over big caliber.<\/p>\nIf I have to choose.<\/p>\n
Which, currently I do not.<\/p>\n
And let’s us good guys and gals all bear down and keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: When President Obama and Candidate Hillary succeed in imposing their Australian plans to confiscate pistols and ban ammunition, dealers in banned substances will have an easier time supplying their customers: everyone will use the same caliber ammunition.\u00a0 \u201cHey man, I\u2019ll take some weed, a couple hits of coke and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56040,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031\/revisions\/56040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}