Recent content by Old Airborne Dog

Equally respectfully, context and nuance matter in the real world, not insinuations. You may have missed where I pointed out that the town where Ayoob accumulated all his hands on policing experience is a very small town whose reported crime index is 23x LOWER than the national average...

I don't know how you could explain "extensive police experience" equating to being a reserve officer in a town of 400 people. Lots of people with access to police reports also write - minus any actual personal experience with fangs out confrontations with violent murderous criminals. Gun...

And it will definitely not go faster! There is that...;) Really, we should all realize that if we aren't carrying a .45 Rowland, we might as well be using 9mms.

Unlike Ayoob - whose purpose ISN'T to sell himself and his products? Yeah... so essentially they're lying to you when their ballisticians tell questioners from police departments that they see no difference between calibers, between bullet weights, between standard and +P pressure. If they're...

When did Ayoob EVER make his living as a peace officer? You know, where you do 40+ hours a week as a cop to earn your daily bread? Unless I'm wrong, he made his living doing other things, while putting in some time as a Reserve Police Officer in a booming metropolis that had a population of...

I'm old enough to remember Ayoob's article in a law enforcement magazine way back when, assuring all of us cops (who back then overwhelmingly carried some flavor of .38 caliber revolver) that the Glaser Safety Slug was the penultimate one shot fight stopper. I still have that magazine and...

I started my law enforcement career armed with a S&W Model 10. Didn't feel inadequately armed with it at the time, and wouldn't cry too much that I was at a statistical disadvantage if I was forced to give up my 9mm FN High Power for the rest of my life and only carry that old S&W Model 10...

Not to slag the 1911, particularly when I spent a lot of money to own the one I have. Instead, fascinated that the .45 ACP somehow or other won WWI... when our ground troops finally had boots on the ground for only the last 35 weeks or so of the war. While Germany was crumbling internally (and...

Your lecturing me with your Carrying a full size 10 with the same mag capacity as your average 9mm isn't a lesser tactical choice. It's a better one. and other parts of your post is what earned you the ridicule that you worked so hard to earn. But go ahead ignore me for the moment: explain to...

Here's a crazy idea: maybe because the companies manufacturing the service handgun ammunition in the other calibers tell their LEO agency customers that there is no significant difference in the terminal ballistics of those calibers. Is that a crazy radical idea, or does Occam's Razor come to...

Yep, blindly following the FBI... that must be it. I'm probably not the only one who knows many cops who moved to law enforcement after serving over in A'Stan and Iraq with the infantry, Ranger, etc. Police forces today are just full of those damned wimps! And the deployments I did, probably...

If you think I'm likely to end up in a gunfight with a grizzly bear in town here in Montana rather than the more likely scenario of having a problem with one of the homeless meth heads showing up here, then you think Montana is far more wild wild West than it is. That said, if your pitch is...

That could be true if your clear assumption that the exact same amount of research and R&D dollars is put in to the... let's say the big fat slow .45 ACP... as is put into the majority choice of law enforcement: 9mm. Where did you come by the information that confirmed that research and R&D...

my investigation for this piece tells me that it’s the .40. It’s just simple physics. Smells like well executed Caliber Wars clickbait - but it got me here. Almost like "what's the best oil for my Harley?" works. But I digress... If it's just "simple physics" - opposed to simple terminal...

In one sentence: Know ALL relevant laws in any jurisdiction you are in, including if you carry no weapons and will only defend yourself with your hands and feet.