Police in Australia Still using revolvers

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: Fern
I don't see a problem with using revolvers.

I also don't see any reason the average police officer needs to shot a large number of rounds quickly. I you can't hit 'em with any of the 6 (or 8) rounds in a revolver, you don't to shoot any more.

I occasionally watch the TV *COPS* and I still see officers in the USA using revolvers.

Fern

If you don't see the need, then you have never been put in a stressful situation that involves shooting somebody. There is no sight picture, there is just point and shoot reactions. All the training I put myself through and my PD puts me through shows me that at BEST, my accuracy will be 20% during a fight. I shoot a 98% during qualifications. I put rounds on target on the move in training, while turning and firing, and shooting from the hip. 20% is the BEST I will do in a real shooting. You are telling me that I should carry a revolver?

With a 20% accuracy, I'm thinking shotgun or blunderbuss.

That's why you carry p90, like in cs:source. Even if you are only 10% accurate, 5 bullets will still hit target out of 50-round magazine 😛 Nvm it's a huge gun, not for carrying around regularly 😱

 

[StinkyPinky]

That's a misleading subject title. Only police in one of their seven states still use revolvers.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
That's a misleading subject title. Only police in one of their seven states still use revolvers.

Second line of first post: "In the state of Victoria"

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Was this woman just unfrozen from 60 years ago or something? 😕

Over a 100. The Colt 1911 proved the superiority of the automatic pistol.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: Tsaico
I dunno, I have fired a few semi-auto handguns at the range, and a few times it had jammed while ejecting the shell. (maybe 1 in 100). I was holding the gun too loose in my wrist. Of all the shells that I have had fired out of a revolver, I have never had a single one get jammed.

But in the overall shceme of things, I think they are just as reliable if taken care of and trained propery. Though I will say a revolver, while carrying fewer rounds a lot easier to reload than magazines. (actually putting bullets into the magazine, not changing one out) I don't think it should really matter one way or the other.

I promise that in a firefight, you will NOT be loading anything into the magazine. Revolvers are horrendously slow reloads compared to semi-autos, and simply put, you can put more rounds down range and on target in a shorter time period with semi-autos than any revolver could hope for. That, and given the fact that despite massive amount of training and preparation, the accuracy of police officers during a gunfight drops to unheard of levels, I would quit my job if I was forced to carry a revolver.

That chief has everything ass backwards. Its like our current admin opposing 12 hour shifts, on the basis of "we don't like it" rather than on any factual claims.

You never seen the gunslinger have you.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
not even hot
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...2008/02/08/2157690.htm

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!! KILL IT KILL IT NOW!!1one

 

[Auggie]

Revolvers are more reliable than semi-automatic pistols. For their deficits in other areas, reliability and dummy-proofness of the "one barrel one shot" is where revolvers are redeemed.

I'd personally prefer my Ber' 92FS, but... I can understand the logic of issuing your officers revolvers.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I've only rarely had a semi-auto jam, although I haven't shot many revolvers. Then again, there's nothing wrong with revolvers. They're fucking cool.

 

[jlee]

I much prefer carrying 13+1 of .45ACP (with two more magazines on tap) over any revolver..but hey, maybe that's just me.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: Fern
I don't see a problem with using revolvers.

I also don't see any reason the average police officer needs to shot a large number of rounds quickly. I you can't hit 'em with any of the 6 (or 8) rounds in a revolver, you don't to shoot any more.

I occasionally watch the TV *COPS* and I still see officers in the USA using revolvers.

Fern

If you don't see the need, then you have never been put in a stressful situation that involves shooting somebody. There is no sight picture, there is just point and shoot reactions. All the training I put myself through and my PD puts me through shows me that at BEST, my accuracy will be 20% during a fight. I shoot a 98% during qualifications. I put rounds on target on the move in training, while turning and firing, and shooting from the hip. 20% is the BEST I will do in a real shooting. You are telling me that I should carry a revolver?

With a 20% accuracy, I'm thinking shotgun or blunderbuss.

That's why you carry p90, like in cs:source. Even if you are only 10% accurate, 5 bullets will still hit target out of 50-round magazine 😛 Nvm it's a huge gun, not for carrying around regularly 😱

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...ns/e/e5/P90_Cyprus.jpg
Not that big.