Carry what you like, it all works

[fickman]

A hitman could use a nail gun. He and I are in different businesses.

I agree in principle, but I'll still counsel people to carry a .38 / 9mm or larger.

[jerry_r60]

Mossad's weapon of choice for many years was a Ruger Mark 1 with a can. They went for a shot to the temple, eye, or back of head. Those guys could make the best mob hit-man look like an amateur.

The historical fiction had suff on Mosad hunting down people involved in the Munich Olympics attack. The idea for the .22 there was that they could use it on an aircraft, without puncturing the skin of hte pressurized aircraft. They even talked about an intentionally reduced load .22.

The only time an aircraft has been destroyed by a bullet fired through the skin or window from inside was in a James Bond movie - - - "Goldfinger" if my memory serves me. US Federal Air Marshals use 357 SIGs loaded with Gold Dots. They want to turn the bad guy off if it comes to a shooting situation.

Interesting on current air marshall info, so much for that theory. I guess the book I read was using some creative license or it was a concern back then?? As I recall, the book was a good read, great story. I just did a quick web search to see if i could find the title. It seems they made a movie out of it too. It was posed as a non-fiction book but it's in question:

From wikipedia: "Sword of Gideon is a 1986 television film about Mossad agents hunting down terrorists associated with the 1972 Munich massacre. It was first shown on the CTV network in Canada as a four hour miniseries and later on the HBO television network. Directed by Michael Anderson and written by Chris Bryant, the film stars Steven Bauer and Michael York. The film is based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas, an account of the incident which has been criticized by some intelligence personnel as fictional, though because of its covert nature is difficult to prove or disprove. In some countries the book was titled Vengeance: Sword of Gideon, from which the movie title is drawn. The story was retold in the 2005 film Munich by Steven Spielberg"

[fickman]

US Federal Air Marshals use 357 SIGs loaded with Gold Dots

.357 SIG seems to be the new .40 in the LEO community. My BIL is an officer and a couple of years ago they had some kind of publication circulating around with the ballistics of .357 SIG - he and half of his buddies changed over.

(Their department forbids .45 and issues 9mm, so most of them were carrying .40 until recently.)