Reloading speed, revolvers and tactical loads
If you are new to firearms it’s fun to play tricks on you. I have the opportunity to teach novice shooters and sometimes just random co-workers and family members that have no idea how to use a firearm other than pulling the trigger. It’s not always up to the operator’s speed at gun handling, sometimes its the way the gun is loaded has more to do with how fast you get it up and running. For instance, if you had a Glock 19 and 3 15rd magazines and they all ran empty, if you don’t have a speed loader a guy with a 5 shot revolver is going to get his gun back in the fight faster especially if he had speed loaders ahead of time. It’s not really that you have to worry about running empty with a Glock firearm, it’s that carrying a 5 shot revolver does not mean you are under gunned.
As our economy sits in limbo, there will be crimes that creep up out of nowhere and concealed carry is something people are thinking about. There are a lot of wild situations that people like to put themselves into, but the right mindset of a gun fight is to get out of it. If you are military or Police, you may be called to break down doors and take down the bad guy, but civilians don’t have the justification for doing that by law. The 1911 is seeing a lot of come backs in private security rankings and we have sold a lot of Wilson Combat magazines to guys that are doing the door knocking. The reality of many search warrants is that close quarters gun fight does last long and the need for a high capacity firearm isn’t very necessary. The most common gun magazine we are selling to the guys doing the door knocking are 7rd Wilson combat 1911 mags.