Posted on 10/19/2012 12:39:21 PM PDT by marktwain
To quote Jeff Cooper "All guns are always loaded all the time" (see Rule 1 of Cooper's Laws for Gun Safety).
Interesting stats, but NOTHING can be stated definitively about the gun YOUR criminal will be carrying when he assaults YOU. If he has a weapon, it must be assumed to be LOADED and that he is ready and willing to USE it.
Stop the threat. Then, add his stats to the above report.
bump
This is just slightly off topic, but since it has been discussed here many times about the possibility of SHTF and the inner city thugs flowing out into the surrounding area looking for food/drugs etc. The question arises; Is this the quality of the opponent we might encounter? The ones who are most likely to be violently inclined?
And if so, does this also show us what sort of weaponry might be deployed by them?
Yes and yes.
But remember, the further away you live from the feral areas the ones who survive to make it to your neck of the woods will be the most ruthless and well armed of the bunch.
Very good points!
Let’s just hope that rule 308 takes them out first.
Disagree. Most people who carry get tired of carrying daily with a full sized weapon. Heck, if I knew trouble was coming, I'd go around with a semi-automatic rifle in at least .308 - but I don't. In 35 years as an adult, I've had a reason to pull a gun once, and have yet to need to use one.
Right now, I'm looking for a small 380...leaning to the Sig 238. Something small enough to carry EVERY day. If I'm feeling more tense, then I'll ADD a 686+ or rifle.
BTW - a 380 with FMJ ammo will penetrate 20" of ballistic gelatin. Yes, I'd prefer my 44, but my S&W 29 is a bit awkward to carry daily!
Greg knows what he’s talking about.
When you’re attacked, there’s very little time to rack the slide and chamber a round. This video demonstrates that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytJweALgqw
The problem is always remembering what condition it is in. Is there a round chambered or not? Are you feeling lucky?
What you want is that the way that you draw the firearm becomes automatic and reliable. If you choose to carry with an empty chamber, then do so all the time and practice always chambering a round automatically when you draw. This is the Israeli method.
If you are going to carry with a round chambered, always do so.
Another consideration is the added safety risk of constantly loading/unloading the handgun. Doing this thousands of times increases the possibility of an accidental discharge.
I carry with a round chambered. I have always done so since the time I was really, really glad that I had the pistol with me, did not have to draw or fire, and then found that I did not have a round in the chamber.
It could have been very “embarrassing” to find that out in the middle of a confrontation.
Learning from your mistakes is good. Learning from the mistakes of others is much better.
No, it is not "a little too much". It is exactly right. Your weapon was DESINGED to be carried loaded. Loaded means a round in the chamber, or a round in all chambers in the case of a revolver. (The only exception is certain single shot revolvers. You're not carrying one for self defense.) If you aren't comfortable with a cocked and locked 1911 or Hi-Power, then carry a DA or DA/SA pistol or carry a DA revolver.
IMO
Who was the athlete who had his gone go off in a bar while in his pocket or holster?
Its useless information. Like anyone is going to care what the stats are if a gun is being pointed at you.
You can take the thug out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug.
Carry a quality pistol in a quality holster, and things like this become vanishingly unlikely.
Some things bother me about this report.
1. How can he shoot ammo that was loaded in the gun? I realize he says the cases have gone thru the trial phases but what about appeals and destroying evidence? How does the firearm & ammo become the property of the police dept?
2. The author gives exacting percentage answers and then selectively adds phrases like “roughly” before one of three or four percentage numbers. Why aren’t the other numbers approximate too?
3. Guns are used by criminals to achieve their objective which is not always to win a gunfight...I suspect they are used to intimidate the weak, perhaps to gain status, etc, etc.
Overall, I rank it as a pretty silly article.
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