I'll take the bed so long as it is just after sex.
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I'll take the bed so long as it is just after sex.
If you'd gonna die on the sofa, you might as well just go to bed ...
My wife won't let me eat in bed.
Considering I frequently carry a Kahr (7+1) and just recently started carrying a .38 LCR, then sure, I will take the round I am more accurate with and have quicker follow up shots while retaining very similar down range performance. But since this is the real world I prefer my G19 more often than not with the excess capacity.
...and in the real world there are places where people are limited to the number of rounds they can carry: Hawaii, California, Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Maryland, Massachutes, New York, to name a few. I guess if you never travel it is not a problem. But I was asking a real work scenario question.
Be careful, they may start arguing about whether dying in bed or a recliner is better.
Kind of a drag when a real world example of "stopping power" fails too.
Success in putting down an assailant lies at the intersection of physics, physiology and luck. We probably have less control over the outcome of a gunfight than we think.
I suppose an irrelevant link is as good as no link. That article is about the 1911 pistol and not the .45 caliber cartridge which it mentions only sidereally - and certainly doesn't support your statement that its "inception was absurd" any more than...
"Demand for larger calibers in military sidearms led to Luger to develop the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge for his new pistol. This was achieved by removing the bottleneck shape of the 7.65×21mm Parabellum case, resulting in a tapered rimless cartridge encasing a bullet that was 9mm in diameter."
... supports the notion that the inception of what we refer to as 9mm was absurd.
Yes, let's note the date. The current standard was published in April 1994 with Change 2 dated 20 December 1996, so your old, non-standard ammunition predates the current standard. This isn't unusual for the military supply system with stockpiles that go back decades to being used up, but even given the benefit of the doubt that's what it is, or that it may have been accepted by the military as a suitable substitute for the standard item, it doesn't change the standard. That's just not how it works.
So.... If capacity was limited (can only carry 10 rounds), would you still choose 9mm?
I believe that 9mm is superior to 45ACP in ALL aspects of self-defense: concealability, weight, capacity, reliability, penetration and follow-up shots.
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