I never made a 50 round requirement
You didn't what? You didn't write this?
Nowadays, most cops carry close to 50 rounds on their person at all times. The idea that it should be in three or four magazines is just as stupid as the idea that they should only have 6 rounds in the gun and some speedloaders or dump pouches. Bottom line: Submachine gun with 50 round magazines.
Oh.. well.. I mean... Geesh.. Right there in your own words: "
BOTTOM LINE: SUBMACHINE GUN WITH 50 ROUND MAGAZINES"
Uzi's can take 40 and 50 round magazines.
50 round magazines were never UZI issue. They were aftermarket and they were garbage. There is a reason that the largest magazine issued with UZI was 32 rounds. FYI: You can get a 50 round Glock magazine too (of course no one on duty is ever going to use one for reasons that are obvious to cops, but which I will explain later in the post anyways)... so, again, your argument is terrible.
The MPX and PMX are 30 rounds. That's still double the magazine capacity of .40 S&W duty pistols
You just compared the capacity of two 9mm guns to a .40... Seriously, how can you be this bad at forming arguments? You know what else, most 9mm handguns have more capacity than the average .45 handgun. Shock and gasp.
I don't know why you feel a need to defend the MP5
I what? Where did you get the idea that I'm defending the MP5? I'm using it as a generic SMG size since HINT: there are still a lot of them out there and *SHOCK* even more modern SMGs tend to be generally the same size. That's because they kind of have to be because of this thing called Matter. If you want a barrel of X length, and a magazine capacity of X, and etc etc, things tend to be able to get only so small. You may shave a few mm off of a dimension, but unless you do something radical (P90) you aren't getting much smaller
I also think that if more people carried submachine guns, there would be more interest in newer designs that would solve a lot of the problems for EDC.
More interest in new designs? What, like the Sig MPX, Beretta PMX, Kriss Vector or CZ Scorpion EVO. All three of those are less than a decade old.
Police around the world use submachine guns on patrol every day. They don't have all the problems you describe. These are in Sweden:
Thank you for precisely proving my point. As I said earlier:
Yes, subguns work well for special duty assignments, but once you get guys trying to climb in and out of cars all day with the damn things, reality starts to suck.
So, you know, thanks for proving my point. Now, instead of picking one picture in particular off of Google and hoping that we are too stupid to fall for it, Google "Swedish Police" and look at the pictures. The vast majority of them have no SMGs in sight. You know why? Because the Swedish police don't carry SMGs as a matter of daily routine. It's almost like they come out for
. You know, just like in the US.
Also, a few things about your picture:
1) Note both officers are still carrying sidearms, so LOL.
2) MP5s HAHA, OMG, wow... this is too much. LOL See, that's why I use the MP5 as the generic SMG. They are everywhere.
There are lots of slings that work for shoulder carry, chest carry, back carry, etc.
Ah, so, the conversation has swung back to slings are okay. Good to know.. because, you know, slings were right out for a bit. Okay, cool.. slings. Now look at that under the shoulder rig in the third picture and tell me how any officer is supposed to bring that weapon into action while seated in a car. Don't worry, it's a trap question. The officer can't, because the firearm is seat belted in. Of course, there is added hilarity for your suggested 40 round magazine sticking out of the bottom of the MP7 in a vertical shoulder rig... which pushes the gun well off the seat back and makes it interfere with the drivers arms. Also, I hope you don't have any left handed officers as that sling would actually block the ejection port on the MP7 and cause it to malf if fired.
Remember when you said that no law enforcement experience was needed in this conversation? Yeah, well, anyone with any time in a cruiser would have spotted those little problems right away.
Also, bonus LOLs for the blue painted airsoft MP7 on one side and imitation Glock mags on the other. Also, pretty sure that's an airsoft rig...
Where do you think this guy drew his Uzi from?
Agent Wanko had his Uzi in a briefcase.