This Days Inn deserves to be congratulated for allowing an employee to carry!

[Michigander]

Save your money on Silvertips in .32 acp. When I bought my first .32 the counter guy recommended Silvertips so I bought a box. When I tested them shooting through fabric into water the majority of the box failed to expand...could have bought FMJ for half the price and got the same performance.

This is actually thought by some to be a saving grace of the silvertip .32 round. In a longer barreled gun such as a 1908 pocket browning, they are much more likely expand than from a Seecamp or Kel Tec, where they will more likely penetrate as far as possible since they didn't have sufficient FPS to expand.

 

[Sail Man]

.22's are dangerous rounds and very under appreciated in a lot of respects. It's not the first choice I'd carry, but I'd much rather grab a .22 than say, a baseball bat.

I worked in the ER of St. John Main (Moross and Mack in Detroit) for almost 3 years. We got gunshot wound victims on nearly a daily basis. Only two were ever shot with 22's when I was there but both died. One was shot in the eye, and it ricocheted off the back of his skull and swiss cheesed his brain. The other was shot in the collar bone, and it bounced off his collar bone, went through his lung, aorta, liver, kidney, and exited out near his buttock on the opposite side of his body.

Again, not my first choice of carry, but if it's all I had, you better believe it's got the potential to get the job done.

I've transported more then a few patients into St John Main, always impressed with the ED staff. Currently work for the most part in Troy on a non-transport unit. One of the Troy LEO's I work with used to work DPD (as many of them did) and mentioned years back he had a partner killed with a .22. Got his femoral and he bled out before they could get him to an ER.