@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:I have to say, I think you guys are basing your judgments on semi-auto pistols on older models. Modern semi-auto handguns are very very reliable. I have 3 semi-auto's and have only had a problem when they were not cleaned properly. I tested it once about a year ago. My Beretta went through 3 different shooting trips without a cleaning, so maybe something like 900 rounds through it without a cleaning. It performed perfectly until the last 20 rounds for the 3rd trip, when it stated jamming. Once cleaned and maintained properly, I haven't had an issue since, and I have gone through at least 1000 rounds since then with no jams.
With semi-auto's, it is important to keep them cleaned and oiled.
If you don't, then you are inviting jams and other feed issues.
U bet your life on their functioning correctly; big stakes.
The point has been made that Zimmy suffered a failure to eject
the shell from his 1 and only discharged round; i.e., if he had needed
to discharge more rounds, he 'd have been screwn. The great glory of pistols is bigger magazines.
Jamming negates their value.
Note also that with revolvers, u need not rotate magazines at nite
to relieve tension on the follower spring. Revolvers r much faster n easier to clean.
With revolvers, u need not police your
brass before
leaving the scene, if such be your choice,
after a defensive emergency. Even with his
acquittal, Zimmy purportedly owes
$2,5OO,OOO
in fees to legal counsel because his name was identified to this defensive event.
If there were no witnesses, then some successful defenders can prudently,
discreetly (furtively? surreptitiously? clandestinely?) depart hence.
Maybe Bernie Goetz had a better filosofy of traveling.
