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The hand wringing ninnies and the notion one should use what police carry has been around forever.
My first foray as an armed security monkey, everyone kept saying "you have to use what the local police use, or you can be charged with murder if you shoot someone" - WTF? Just like my first security instructor, and an equally fuddish CHL instructor said "never shoot someone in the head, it's automatic premeditated murder if you do" - again, WTF?
Here I am over 20 years later, and a fuddy security instructor was still passing that same shit along - also noting to add "don't modify your guns, you'll lose in court every time" - when one student asked "what about putting a light on it" - instructor says "that's modifying your gun, what do you need a light for?" Um, I dunno, like, 90% of security people work at night to start. Seeing your target and being able to have two hands on the gun while illuminating some shitbird is another good reason, and you just said use what the cops use, and most of them have lights on their guns.
The hand wringing ninnies should go take a long walk off a short plank into a deep canyon.
Since the government, nor my employer, is buying my ammo, or my gun, I'll carry what I find to be reasonable in cost that also performs well in my pistol. Its a handgun. Its not magic. Shot placement matters more than ballistic performance in pistol rounds.
My G34 loves 147 grain stuff. My G19 works great with 115 and 124 grain stuff.
My first foray as an armed security monkey, everyone kept saying "you have to use what the local police use, or you can be charged with murder if you shoot someone" - WTF? Just like my first security instructor, and an equally fuddish CHL instructor said "never shoot someone in the head, it's automatic premeditated murder if you do" - again, WTF?
Here I am over 20 years later, and a fuddy security instructor was still passing that same shit along - also noting to add "don't modify your guns, you'll lose in court every time" - when one student asked "what about putting a light on it" - instructor says "that's modifying your gun, what do you need a light for?" Um, I dunno, like, 90% of security people work at night to start. Seeing your target and being able to have two hands on the gun while illuminating some shitbird is another good reason, and you just said use what the cops use, and most of them have lights on their guns.
The hand wringing ninnies should go take a long walk off a short plank into a deep canyon.
Since the government, nor my employer, is buying my ammo, or my gun, I'll carry what I find to be reasonable in cost that also performs well in my pistol. Its a handgun. Its not magic. Shot placement matters more than ballistic performance in pistol rounds.
My G34 loves 147 grain stuff. My G19 works great with 115 and 124 grain stuff.
