Jim... well aquiring skills with a firearm certainly requires a lower standard of physical fitness (as Cooper was wont to complain about some of the guys showing up for his classes
) than is become proficient at martial arts.
Anyhow, back to the topic of firearms, Sykes and Fairbairn have this to say about auto pistol design...
We have an inveterate dislike of the profusion of safety devices with which all automatic pistols are regularly equipped. We believe them to be the cause of more accidents than anything else...
It is better, we think, to make the pistol permanently �un-safe� and then to devise such methods of handling it that there will be no accidents.
..and of stopping power, with respect to "light and fast" versus "slow and heavy"....
...we should choose a cartridge that represents what we consider a safe middle course, i.e. with a bullet of reasonably large calibre and weight, driven at a... high velocity
Sounds to me like they were describing a Glock, in .40 S&W, which has emerged as pretty much our pre-eminent Law Enforcement pistol/cartridge combo.
Birdwatcher
