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To: Eleutheria5

Three shots are known as “insurance”.

There have been reports that gunmen on drugs don’t feel or react to bullet wounds unless they hit a vital area such as the head or heart.

Filipino rebel forces on drugs during the early years of the U.S. liberation of their island from Spain often continued their attacks despite being hit several times.

That is why the .45 caliber gun was invented, for it’s stopping power.


13 posted on 07/04/2023 2:43:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Filipino rebel forces on drugs during the early years of the U.S. liberation of their island from Spain often continued their attacks despite being hit several times.

That is why the .45 caliber gun was invented, for it’s stopping power.”

Yep... Absolutely...


15 posted on 07/04/2023 2:59:55 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Very true—there’s a growing number of hand gun instructors in this area teaching the triple tap instead of the double tap in a life or death encounter.


16 posted on 07/04/2023 3:04:41 PM PDT by DaBroasta ("An armed society is a polite society" Heinlein)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I believe 2 to the heart, 1 to the head, was the old standard for insuring that a terrorist would not be capable of further violence.


24 posted on 07/04/2023 4:00:54 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; Openurmind
Semi true.

The military had poor stopping power with the .38 S&W Long. Since expanding bullets were verboten, the .38 cals were doing complete pass throughs, with not a lot of shock value.

The reissued the .45 SAA Colts (.45 Colt Long) and that got the job done.

When the Army decided on the semi auto pistol, they wanted something to match the .45 Colt Long cartridge.

28 posted on 07/04/2023 4:28:43 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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