A decent Toronto Star piece on the training of Iraq police cadets by Canadians, in Jordan. Not without the required reminders of how Canadians are specially gifted with cultural sensitivity, but when you can get anyone at the Star to contemplate both the design efficency and the inadequacy of a Glock, you have to give them a few points for effort.
Hey Kate, wanna get that link working? Thx!
ack… sorry about that. It’ll have to wait until I get home…
Well, Glock does have a fully automatic version http://www.glock.com/g18.htm
as well as .45ACP and 10mm. Even Diplomad made note of the wimpiness of the 9mm. AK-47’s don’t have that much more punch than a 9mm, it’s just that they come with full auto. Uzi’s are 9mm too. Ah well, I should probably be happy that the TorStar managed to spell Glock right!
I’m afraid I will have to agree with Bacardi Breezer. The Glock is a fine weapon, and I presume it was chosen because of its simplicity and high clip capacity. (Sometimes in the States where it has been used by street gangs, the high capacity Glock has been called “pray and spray,” because you don’t have to be a good shot if you have enough capacity to do fire suppression.)
On the other hand, I have a ghoulish picture of a man who was hit 33 times with 9 mm rounds before he ever stopped fighting (I taught some of these subjects for a brief period). Naturally, he could have been hopped up with so many pharmaceuticals his physiology did not respond normally. And I believe the SAS liked the 9 mm round in Northern Ireland.
The problem is, too many people have been hit by 9 mm rounds and continued to fight back or return fire. One can find cases of this with just about every round, but the 9 mm round has been a bit conspicuous in this regard.
I would have felt a little better about a heavier caliber bullet than the 9 mm.