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Originally Posted by Stealhead
.In all reality the best weapon is the one that allows you to put the most rounds into a center mass target quickly and relatively accurately.
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There is much wisdom in those words.
I am reminded of an almost interesting story from my sordid past. Back when I was a punk I was quite the gun nut and liked to hang round in my local gun shop. One day a customer came in that made the owner's day.
The customer wanted a hand gun for home defense. Great, that's why the gun store is there.
It simply had to be a .44 mag.
A bit over kill to make a bad pun but hey, this is America and if someone wants to spend their money on a .44 mag, who is to say they can't. Would suck to be his neighbour, but that's not the gun shop owner's concern.
His next request was to have a scope installed on it. .44 mag with a scope for home defense.
. But hey, still in America and if someone wants to pay for a scope on their .44 mag, the gun store owner is more than happy to do it. Perhaps he has a home with very long hallways.
The customer's last request was a bit unusual. He wanted a silencer.
A silenced .44 mag with scope for home defense.
There were some issues
1. A silencer is a Class III device and there is "paperwork" involved that neither the customer nor the gun shop had
2. You can't silence a .44 mag bullet in flight unless you reduce the velocity to subsonic and that usually requires a special load which eliminates any "advantage" of the "magnum" round.
3. Any silencer capable of silencing a .44 mag round would be so long and wide as to be tactically unwieldy.
4. You can't silence a .44 mag revolver without encasing it in a box.
5. You don't need a frickin .44 mag with a fricking scope and a fricking silencer for frickin home frickin defense
Sans silencer, this customer spent about $2,000 for a gun with little practical use. This was more than 30 years ago. Gotta love Americans. They will buy stuff without really knowing what they are buying.
It was a fun and profitable day for the gun shop owner.
Too bad the owner did not have a .454 Casull in stock, he could have sold that for mega bucks.