DHart
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Get the Special Forces and the M&P45. Enjoy life.
Observation from looking at gunshop repair logs & talking to smiths/armorers at high volume shops. Taurus polymer frame handguns break with far greater frequency than those manufactured by any other major brand. Their revolvers, and metal frame autos are, fortunately not vexed by the same gremlins. Thank you for questioning my integrity as well: It reveals quite a bit about your character.Polymer frames have the highest failure rate? A rather blanket, unsuported statement, I assume you contacted every manufacturer of polymer weapons, and put together these facts? or just pull them out of your...hat?
It is a common courtesy to first present one's own credentials before asking for another's.Who needs more than 8 rounds? Maybe anyone that has been run on in a combat setting. Contact so and so for their deployment story? I take it that you have no first hand combat experience to share with us then?
Please tell us about your experience running out of ammo in a gunfight.Granted it is rare, outside of combat, to need more than a few rounds, but situations such as the hollywood shootout do occur. I can tell you, first hand, running out of ammo in the middle of a gunfight is no fun at all.
A handgun is used to shoot back whilst you retrieve your your long gun. If you've expended eight rounds from a handgun before you reach your long gun, or before backup arrives, you're already a very ugly situation.I know several officers, that have burned thru 8 rounds just dealing with one offender. Better to have it, and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Says the man who doesn't understand tongue-in-cheek humor.And the whole point of this thread was to talk him out of a 1911.
A handgun is used to shoot back whilst you retrieve your your long gun. If you've expended eight rounds from a handgun before you reach your long gun, or before backup arrives, you're already a very ugly situation.
As an armed, non LEO, citizen, I also have no commitment to stay in a gun fight. My handgun is to defend myself with as I leave the threat area. LEOs are paid to go toward the sound of gunfire, and neutralize the threat; and for that I am grateful to them. However, I ain't them.I never bought into this. Sometimes, your handgun is all you got. For a civilian, the handgun is the primary weapon.
I am not saying 1911s are good or bad, I am saying, sometimes, a LOT of times, there is no long gun to "fight your way back to."
If you had 20 1911's.... you would find you would probably shoot one the majority of the time. Just take a little time to find that one. Try to handle/shoot as many as you can before jumping into one.
This is easy, you want a new airplane, don't buy a biplane, buy a learjet.
Granted it is rare, outside of combat, to need more than a few rounds, but situations such as the hollywood shootout do occur. I can tell you, first hand, running out of ammo in the middle of a gunfight is no fun at all.