Posted: 11/16/2010 3:26:51 AM EDT
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I've been shooting in a rimfire silhouette match every month and this past Saturday one of the guys there is a reserve with the local sheriff's dept. and after the match was over he made the comment that he was heading to go qualify with the sheriff's dept, but with a brand new gun that he had never fired. Curious, a couple of us started asking questions and the sheriff had decided to purchase new weapons for the officers. This is the part that got me thinking. They bought Sig 1911 .45acp, super nice guns, but they are replacing .40 Glocks. The reasoning for the caliber switch is the last 2 situations where an officer had to shoot the .40 did not stop the bad guy, so the switch to .45 I can understand. The part that has me puzzled is the switch to the 1911 and now these guys have to deal with the safety. I know all the 1911 guys will say that it's not a problem, but don't you think it's a lot to ask for these guys that are used to draw and fire to put in that extra step? Would it not made more sense just to get glocks in .45acp? I don't know how much practice time LE officers get to do or even if they have time do at all but it just seems like a big change and possible risk?
Thoughts? Opinions? Done with thinking for the day, back to work....... 
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With my grip, I don't have to make a conscious decision to flip the thumb safety off.
As I reach down to get on the gun, my thumb is pointed forward (to get high up towards the slide). It hits leather for approximately 1.5" of travel before the back of the slide clears leather and my thumb slides down the side of it onto the safety where it's disengaged. It's just a training issue. If they want to train, it's not going to be a problem for them. Personally, I don't think it's wise for them to switch platforms like that, especially with the G21's reputation, cost, and same manual of arms. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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It's just a training issue. If they want to train, it's not going to be a problem for them.
I concur. unfortanetly most cops I know don't want to train and are not "gun people". I think I would have looked at the shooting with the .40 and analyzed what went wrong (bullet design, shot placement, etc.) I shot competition with a 2011 for a few years and still prefer the simplicity of my G23 for carry. |
| I think it may be a ammo problem as well as a training issue, after my post this morning I did remember the reserve officer saying that he thought the ammo was bought at Walmart. What HP ammo does Walmart carry, Winchester? It's sure not any top shelf defense ammo. The one instance he talked about was the officer had went to a house to serve a warrant and the guy answered the door with a shotgun yelling he wasn't going to jail, 3 body shots. One thru and thru, 1 caught a lung and the other hit him while he was falling away and glanced and ended up in his hip. He left the hospital the next morning. |
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I think it may be a ammo problem as well as a training issue, after my post this morning I did remember the reserve officer saying that he thought the ammo was bought at Walmart. What HP ammo does Walmart carry, Winchester? It's sure not any top shelf defense ammo. The one instance he talked about was the officer had went to a house to serve a warrant and the guy answered the door with a shotgun yelling he wasn't going to jail, 3 body shots. One thru and thru, 1 caught a lung and the other hit him while he was falling away and glanced and ended up in his hip. He left the hospital the next morning. 
Wow. Try and find out if they were FMJ or JHP's. 
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