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My Take(s): A. If you fitted it with just a ten round AR mag, it could be a poor man's C96; you'd need a custom holster, though. B. M2 Carbine's variant would be both a little burp gun and a truck gun, too.

Any double-edged sword, double-edged is second only to a bullet in stopping a man. I've eliminated: Trident: too precision to use, easily deflected/broken. Scimitar: Good xiphos/bastard sword and shield would beat this. katana: see scimitar. Survival knife: easily defeated by thick clothing.

Makarov Any Mauser pocket auto from 1896-1945 Browning BDA. Ortgies Beretta 64/Taurus clone CZ83 PPK/S Colt 1903

1. Buy Quality. 2. Shoot quality ammo. 3. Use quality magazines. 4. Clean your weapon after every firing session. 5. Store in a relatively safe place after 4. 6. Don't deliberately mistreat a weapon. 7. It won't fail you, wheelgun or automatic.

The best tool for for facing any dangerous big game animal, is a semiautomatic rifle stoked with soft noses. Soft noses penetrate, then expand. AN SKS, AK, FAL, Mini 14, will do just fine here.

A modernized labyris(Amazon two headed small battleaxe)would be great, for CQB. It's the oversized fantasy axes, that give the axe a bad name.

Despite what you see in hollywierd, the secutor usually slew the retiarius. A spear is a very bad choice for facing a double-edged sword. Reason: The shaft is light wood, the swing of a gladuis or Xiphos or Spatha or knightly longsword would have split in half. After which, the spearman is toast.

My pal, Joe Coalgrove, shot a bear with HP, from an SKS. Bear ran off, back next day. I gave him some SP. Two shots, dead bear. AK with a DFoolding stock and ghost ring or Mini 14 may be good here, too.

If this was true, wouldn't the Germans have tried this against our troops; from North Africa onwards? I have yet to read/hear any German recollections on this tactic. As heavy as the ETO was, I vote 'myth'.

Get the kid a Mini 14, you'll have a new hunting buddy.

Social Organization is why Europeans took over much of the globe. In European society, the individual was rewarded for innovation. Johannes Gutenberg is praised as the father of the printing press. In the Ottoman Empire, the scribes guild suppressed printing presses until the 1800s. This is why...

A gun is just a tool. And aren't tools to be modified to the need of individual using such tools?

No. If that spare cylinder got hit in a firefight, it would go off like a grenade.

If you have a .45 acp revolver that uses full moon clips, you can shoot .45 GAP in it. Lighter bullet=less kick. People with bad wrists, the reduced recoil would make such a rig a good choice for them. Love .45 acp, but can see also the potential advantages of .45 GAP.

I love .45 acp, but I want the GAP to succeed too. Did .44 magnum replace .44 special? Did .45 acp replace .45 Colt? NO. The British used .455 Webley for many years, it was smaller than .45 acp; just as potent. It's MASS that make .45-caliber pistols work so well. From .45 LC to .45...