Originally posted by AthensAccord
I'm a clueless little car geek that talk shit about stuff I am totally ignorant about...
No cop on earth would recommend a DE .50 for a self-protection weapon or as a carry gun for a police officer. So all of you little boys who have watched one to many Lethal Weapon movies growing up, go blow your wad on a DE. Meanwhile, me and every other guy who knows his guns are laughing our asses off at your ignorant "bigger is better" mentality...
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i had a desert eagle kit that had the frame & (2) magazines & (1) barrell for .50/.357 magnum/.41 magnum/.44 magnum. all in a nice wood box. it was a gift. the DE is more of a "show-off" piece than a "self-protection" piece. sold it for a tidy profit. it just wasn't practical.
i have my concealed carry permit & i carry one of (5) guns most all the time.
1) glock 27 : sub-compact .40
2) glock 33 : sub-compact .357sig (basically a .40 shell necked-down to a 9mm bullet like a rifle cartridge)
3) glock 30 : sub-compact .45
4) glock 26 : sub-compact 9mm
5) sig sauer p230 : .380
the glock 27 is my main choice. i also have a smith & wesson model 640 revolver that is .357magnum/.38 special that i keep in the car @ all times.
as far as depending on any for protection, i wouldn't feel underpowered w/ any of them.
one night my girlfriend @ the time & i were downtown nash & had just left hooters downtown & were walking back to the parking garage to goto a club. we had a group of 6 guys follow us down an alley & were yelling obscenitites @ my girl. i put her in front of me, turned, drew my glock & very politely asked it they wanted something. two of em had knives drawn. i heard one of 'em piss his pants before they turned & ran off back the way they came.
not shots fired, no law broken, but i'm positive if i wasn't legally armed that night, things would've been alot different.
i have only fired my gun @ somebody once & it was in my hotel room on vacation in orlando last year. guy high on pcp busted down our door & came @ us w/ a bat. 1 shot to the shoulder (9mm glock) & he dropped the bat & hit the floor. he was arrested & went to jail for 9 months.
florida is a receprocity state (meaning they honor a legal carry permit from another state), so i was never charged. my gun was confiscated for a week while they ran ballistics..etc, but that is standard procedure.
in my concealed-carry class they taught us tha a well-placed shot from anything .38 & above is usually sufficient to stop an attacker. they also taught us not to aim for the head, but for the "center-cavity". this is were all the vital organs are & the best place to stop an attacker.carrying something like a .50 for "protection" just screams "killer" to a jury (if it ever came to that).
my uncle, who is a diamond broker & carries, always says "I'd rather be judged by 13 than carried by 6!" meaning, better to be alive in on trial than dead & buried.
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btw: anybody who ever thinks about getting a gun for protection, please consider (1) thing......if you think there is a SLIGHT chance that you wouldn't pull the trigger if it came down to it, don't get a gun cause the attacker will take it from you & KILL YOU WITH IT!!!
it happened to somebody i know.
