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Bravo_Sierra wrote:
I just don't see a revolver as being a viable fighting platform.
Not really so, but I have heard it before....You need 15 or 16 rounds....but do you.
If you have more rounds you shoot more rounds, but do you need them.
A good example is what happened in New Your City when they went from the 6 shot .38 revolver being the standard side arm to a 9 mm Auto Loader. The change happened in 1993, (All officers did not change and there are still almost 2,000 revolvers on duty in New York City.)
"For the most part, however, the weapons' increased ammunition capacity hasn't resulted in an increase in police overfiring or the wounding of innocent bystanders, according to NYPD figures. The number of police bullets fired spiked from an average of about 1,100 a year in the last five years the NYPD predominantly used revolvers to 1,728 in 1995, the year after they went to semiautomatics. But by 1999, the number of bullets fired had decreased to 621 and in 2004 fell to a modern low of 352 before shooting up by 75 percent last year."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0649,gardiner,75216,6.html
Initially the number of shots per year spiked, but it has settled back down and is currentlya littleunder 4 shots per encounter.
"Statistically, the shooting is an aberration. The number of shots fired per officer who acted in the 112 shooting incidents this year, through Nov. 19, is 3.2, said Paul J. Browne, a department spokesman. Last year, that number was 3.7 shots fired per officer in 109 incidents. They are down from 4.6 in 2000 and 5.0 in 1995."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/nyregion/27fire.html?ex=1322283600&en=357cf73362b1de61&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Basically when the blush is of the high capacity guns, you don't need 15 rounds as a police officer, but people are tempted to use them if they have them
I would call any gun that has a capacity approximately 2X of what is required of the average gunfight, to be a viable fighting platform.
7 Rounds in my .357, should do just fine and if not there are my 2 Speed Loaders.
Tarzan