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- Oct 3, 2012
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I heard somewhere, that in police shooting statistics, you can track when the switch from revolvers to semi autos occured, leading to the conclusion that frequently, at least for cops, they shoot the gun till its empty.
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Not exactly true, although there is some instances of that. The data seems to indicate round counts went up because more round could be shot in a given time frame, which is to say the gun fight took the same amount of time but more shots were fired in that given time. Remembering it takes time to decide to realize someone is out of the fight and stop pulling the trigger, if someone is shooting 3 times per second vs 1 time per second, that will show in the stats.
Between the terrorist active shooter and jewelry thief UPS truck hijackers, there have been a lot or rounds shot by bad guys in Florida last week.
Think you'd be OK in the thick of one of those messes with your wheel gun?
Probably just as OK as with any other handgun. Who were the victims in the UPS truck? The driver wouldn't have had a challenging shot vs two carjackers. The person shot in their car in the cross fire? Do you figure more ammunition would have been the deciding factor there?
Let's be honest. Hardware is more fun and easier to control. It's sexy and cool. It's easier to concentrate on. The guy killed in the crossfire died not due to available ammo, or even availability of a gun. He died because he didn't realize what was going on around him and react to seek cover in enough time and his number came up for a stray round. The UPS driver died because he was a hostage. In a parallel universe where he was allowed to carry, chose to do so, and took the fight to the two armed suspects we're to assume that he could not get it done with a revolver because of the volume of fire later exchanged? Software issues aren't sexy. They aren't cool. They don't get marketing. Ee don't have a thread of "hot women practicing good situational awareness" on this forum...but software was the problem that day.