The Harley-Davidson of Guns
Ok, I’m a little behind the curve here, but I just read this post at the Diplomad and got kind of tickled by it:
[Colonel Garcia], who had been knocking back scotch pretty heavily all evening, came up to a friend and me, fixed us with that patented stare and blurted out, “The American Army . . . it has become homosexual!”
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“You, you know the 45. The 9mm is for sissies (huecos) with tight pants! Do you know how many times I have shot somebody with a 9mm?” My Embassy colleague and I assumed this either a rhetorical question or one to which he already had an answer, and we did not try to answer it. “Twice. Both times I shoot them and they get up! I have to shoot them again!” He now removed the 45 from my face, holding it in both hands, he looked down at it, “With this gun I only would need to shoot somebody one time! He doesn’t get back up! This is a beautiful gun . . . people see it and they know you are serious. Most of the time I don’t even have to shoot.”
Now, if that doesn’t settle the .45 vs. 9mm argument once and for all, it’ll never be settled!
January 5th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Well, any barrel that I can stick my index finger in usually would do the trick.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Probably true if you are limited by the Geneva Convention to using FMJ rounds. I would prefer to shoot a fast-moving 9MM hollow point over a slow-moving 45 thanks. (I can be more accurate with a 9. Maybe you can be more accurate with a 45 – if so great….) Here’s to getting the GC updated to the 20th (let alone the 21st) Century.
January 5th, 2005 at 3:35 pm
Well, any barrel that I can stick my index finger in usually would do the trick.
Heh! Make mine a Wilson Combat Tactical Super Grade. Tres Chic!
January 5th, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Well, as you did not really specify at the beginning and I was FORCED to read so much before you revealed that it was handguns you were talking about . . .
I kinda like the Benelli of guns, my Nova Pump 🙂 Still looking at a Warthog for my first real pistol.
January 6th, 2005 at 4:41 pm
I’m confused: which gun is the Harley? I’m guessing the .45. Harleys are cool-looking but quite unreliable and unnecessarily loud. (And I say this as someone from Milwaukee, where HD’s world HQ is located.)
Does a .45 have a tendency to not work as reliably as it should?
January 6th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Heh. Yeah, it was mostly about the “cool.” I don’t think the 1911 design is particularly unreliable, given the tests the Army ran on it back then.