Do examples, incidents, matter to you?
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Do examples, incidents, like those matter to you; meaning they might, or not, influence your carry?
Discuss.
OIS and private person shooting incidents matter to me from what might be learned from an overall training perspective. However, that said, the capacity of some handgun which someone was carrying/using in any particular incident is of a low priority,
to me. I'm more concerned with other aspects of the incidents.
Once you've known of cops who were seriously injured, or killed, after exhausting 1 or more hi-cap mags they were carrying during some incident, without achieving the desired effect (at least soon enough) ... 'capacity' takes a back seat to considering many other critical aspects of what might happen in situations and incidents.
Capacity does offer a sense of comfort and confidence to a lot of folks, both cops and private gun owners, and that's fine. Just make sure it's not a misplaced, unjustified or false sense of confidence.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again. During the course of my LE career I carried 6-shot revolvers on-duty, and then semiauto pistols chambered in 9, .40 & .45, with magazine capacities of 14, 15, 12, 8, 9 & 7rds, and then during my post-retirement service as a reserve I carried a 7+1/.45, 8+1/9 and finally a 15+1/.40 issued pistol (because the compact metal-framed 9/.40/.45's went away when we adopted plastic). I bought a fair number of handguns throughout the years of taking a lot of armorer classes and being able to buy at discounted pricing. In all those years I only bought ONE new pistol that uses a magazine capacity of more than 10rds, and that one has a 'high capacity' of 12rds. The rest all have mag capacities of 6-10rds ... and I'm still fine with that when it comes to carrying a retirement CCW.
Matter of fact, one of my most commonly carried duty/off-duty and now retirement weapon choices is a 5-shot snub. Sure, sometimes I may still belt on one of my 6-10rd subcompact or compact pistols, and they certainly still get their fair share of range practice and qual time (along with my J-frames).
Nothing in any of the ever-growing number of streaming video incidents - or the LE/OIS incidents I still hear about from instructors still working in LE - really offers any reason for
me to change my mind for
my retirement CCW needs. Not regarding capacity. I
do, however, still look to try and glean as much as I can regarding potential training, knowledge, gear and tactics issues.
I certainly don't find fault with, or denigrate, the choices made by other folks who like to carry double stack mag pistols - and I know younger instructors who are fully on-board the double stack magazine capacity bandwagon.
Different strokes.