“How the Glock became America’s weapon of choice” | Fresh Air (24 January 2012)

[selil]

Slaphappy have you seen the Judge showing up yet? That little piece of nastiness is on my short list for future purchases.

Law enforcement tall tale: Late 80s I worked a surgery on a victim/suspect who had been shot six times in the abdomen by a 44Mag at about 7 feet. The bullets eviscerated his stomach, kidney, big chunk of liver, and general mayhem to below the rib cage. Took the docs about 12 hours to stabilize and sew him up. After he was shot he jumped from the second window of a house, and ran five blocks dragging chunks. The doctors were worried that he'd get up and run away (we'd had that happen more than once during surgery).

My take away after seeing an officer die from 22lr's is that bad ass attitude is a true survival trait.

[carl]

Slap and Gute:

We had our problem a year or two later so that you had your malfuction in 1999 would stand to reason.

Everybody in our organization initially attributed it to limp wristing also. I had a heck of a struggle getting them to see that proficient shooters all over the state were having the same problem regularly so it wasn't limp wristing.

The funny thing about limp wristing is the only pistol that I ever fired that would malfuction if you limp wristed it was that lousy Berrata.

[gute]

Slaphappy have you seen the Judge showing up yet? That little piece of nastiness is on my short list for future purchases.

My dad has one - it's a freakin hand cannon!