Curious? - Page 3

 

You gonna use it before, or after the locals make you squeal like a
pig?

 
These debates have gone on in the law enforcement community for quite some
time.  The basic tradeoff is between stopping power and magazine capacity.

First of all, I would not buy a Glock for the use you outlined.  As you
probably know, the Glock has no safety other than a "brush" trigger safety
and a mechanical design that eliminates single points of failure (i.e. the
weapon will absolutely not discharge unless the trigger is pulled).  The
weapon is applicable for a law enforcement officer who wears a holster, but
it is not the kind of weapon you want to throw in a bag ... too much danger
of an accidental discharge as you're groping for it, rearranging stuff, etc.
(Although I hope it would be in a holster in the bag.)

I would go with:

a).40 cal. (quite a bit of stopping power).

b)Conventional design with a safety and/or double action with a very stiff
trigger pull on the first shot.

c)Weapon with a proven reliability record.

d)High magazine capacity.

The SigSauer P226 seems suitable.  12+1 rounds is good enough.  Other
manufacturers may have similar offerings.

However, if you went with a Glock, nothing beats the Glock 21 (.45 ACP, 13+1
rounds).

If you were to purchase a Glock, there are internal parts replacements that
raise the trigger pull to about 10 lbs.  I would recommend that if you are
going to pack it or carry it.  If you have any questions about which parts,
where to buy them, and who is authorized to do the work, please write me
directly.
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 wrote:


    With the cute li'l mag extenders for another +2  :-)


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That is obscene.  If a bear (for example) doesn't get the "not a good meal"
message after 16 rounds of .45 ACP, it deserves to eat its victim.

Clearly, a .45 will discourage a person.

I don't know enough about bears, etc. to know how physiologically tough they
are.  I think Lewis and Clark wrote that grizzly bears were the toughest
critter they had ever seen and that if you didn't get it in the head first
time you were lunch.  I don't know what a .45 will do to a bear,
particularly if one is a bad shot.

And then there are the zoo tigers to content with.  If you're gonna taunt
tigers, you'd better be packing.

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Discourage? It will knock him on his ass.

Back during the Phillipine Insurrection, a .38 caliber service
revolver wouldn't knock down a Flip armed with a bolo.

So the .45 auto was invented.