10 thoughts on “Seven Rounds”

  1. Yes, several policemen can lay on 200 rounds and not down or catch both guys, but a person huddled in their home is supposed to be thrilled with the prospect of a clip limit.

    1. My late father used to hunt with a double-barrel shotgun. He said pump actions and semis caused people to waste too much ammo. When you have a revolver, you may focus more on your marksmanship than when your Glock holds 17 rounds and you can reload in a couple seconds.

      That said, when someone is shooting at you, it’s nice to be able to shoot back twice as hard. Truly it’s better to give than to receive. That statistics for the number of rounds per kill for ordinary infantry soldiers (as opposed to snipers) is staggering.

      1. With all due respect, Larry, while your father may have been right about hunting, he certainly was wrong about combat situations.

        1. Like I said, it’s better to give than to receive. But when you know you can fire 17 rounds in a few seconds, reload and repeat, it can make you sloppy with your accuracy. The recent cop gunsprays in California and Mass are examples – hundreds of rounds fired in seconds without fatal results.

          “Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.”
          – Wyatt Earp

          1. This is why it’s important to have a partner. One guy sprays to keep the bad guy’s head down. The other takes the time to get the shot on target.

  2. The other difference is that the private citizen is responsible at risk of his freedom for every shot fired, but the police officer who speed-reloads his way through all of his backup mags and still can’t hit his target isn’t even reprimanded for bad marksmanship…

  3. Watch this video (or listen to it, actually): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHGj9iHHnc

    That’s the shootout that ensued when Johar Tsarnaev was taken into custody. In that shootout nobody was killed. No police were injured and Johar was not fatally injured. The police also used flashbangs amidst those gunshots in order to subdue the suspect.

  5. Rand, it is often told that nobody ever emerged from a gunfight wishing they had brought fewer rounds of ammo.

  6. The following quote by Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, expresses the correct mindset on the subject of how many or how few rounds a person needs in any single magazine to defend himself/herself and his/her family:
    “Moderation in war is imbecility.”

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