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I saw a story about seven FBI agents back in 1986 or somewhere in the late '80s where they cornered TWO bank robbers armed with 5.56x45mm NATO-chambered Ruger Mini-14s. Five had weak .38 special S&W revolvers and two with Beretta 92FS and one with both a .38 and a shotgun. They fired many shots at the two bank robbers who were not wearing Kevlar vests but the weak .38 special rounds just pissed the guys off. All FBI agents got wounded, the one with a shotgun got hit in the hand and the two with Berrettas get killed because all their ammo was in the trunk and they were caught out of ammo in the chamber and the two guys calmly returns to their car. One .38 slug hit one of the robbers in the neck, paralyzing them while the other guy gets constantly hit in the chest but he still squeezes out rounds from his deadly Mini-14. The agent wounded in the arm with shotgun fired it with one hand, always missing. When the shotgun was empty, he took out his .38 revolver and he had to walk up to the car and emptied his revolver to finally kill both of them.

These two guys were big and they took multiple shots in the chest with .38 special slugs and it just seemed to pissed them off. This shows the pathetic stopping power of .38 special or lower and these weak-ass revolvers cost the lives of two FBI agents, ironically the ones with the 9mm Berrettas. In my liberal socialist hometown of Santa Cruz, many cops here still used .38 S&W revolvers but fortunately on a field trip my class visited the local police station, the cop who was my class' tour guide of the then new police station (2000) had a sick HK Mark-23 .45 ACP pistol and showed it to us (not passing it around of course.) You can see my animosity toward low-caliber guns but I just love the power of weapons like the Desert Eagle series, Kalashnikov series, M-16 series and many other famous guns.