Seen on social media, regarding the “one shot stop”:
“There is absolutely such a thing as a magic bullet that will immediately drop a bad guy with one shot if you put it in the right place. Every manufacturer makes one. I don’t know which one it is. If I’m ever in a gunfight, I’ll keep trying all the ones in my magazine until I find it.”
Some early indications on pistol trends: let’s go light and easy-to-use.
I’ve noted that two of the already announced pistols for 2020 – the S&W M&P9 Shield EZ and the GLOCK 44 – seem to be geared to what one may call “compromised” shooters: this could be new-to-the-game gun owners, the ‘aged and collapsing’, like me, or those with physical disability. The new Shield is 9mm, more abrasive than the 380 EZ that preceded it, but easier to load and make ready. The G44 is a 10-shot 22 rimfire. A trainer and fun-gun, the “common tators” (h/t, Claude Werner) have already determined that it is stillborn. That likely means that GLOCK will only sell every one of them they can make.
As the gun culture swells with new shooters/gun owners, we get broad coverage of the population, attracting those who may lack the physicality to run a double-action trigger or rack the slide of a service pistol. Some of us old-timers likewise need a break. The manufacturers are listening.
From the email box, we see that Cimarron Firearms, maker of reproduction firearms in the tradition of America’s Old West frontier guns, honors the soldiers on both sides of the Civil War with a limited series of replica revolvers in The Blue and The Gray Series. Both North and South revolvers feature a finely rendered version in pure silver of the Old Glory Flag or the CSA Stars and Bars Battle Flag inlaid into the grips.