Pretty much the same arguments rehashed on this thread along with real-world failures to stop involving .455 Webleys and .45 ACPs vs. a chance one-shot stop with a .380.
To sum up, all that we have done in this chapter is to provide instances of now various types of weapons and their loads have not run true to form. Preconceived ideas, based upon experience or perhaps hearsay, seem to have been upset.....
But he closes the chapter with this....
Throughout this book we have done our best to emphasise the vital need for extreme rapidity of fire... The more closely our own pistols resemble machine-guns the better we like it.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
