Speed Strips vs. Speedloaders – Keeping Your Revolver In The Fight

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

By Terril J. Hebert

USA -(Ammoland.com)- The number of rounds fired in citizen-involved self-defense encounters is hard to gauge. I have searched high and low for answers but even the FBI doesn’t keep that sort of data. Studies, including that conducted by Kleck and Gertz in their 1995 book Armed Resistance to Crime point out that more than 92 percent of all self-defense uses of firearms don’t involve firing the gun.

But what that remaining 8 percent of the time when you will have to pull the trigger? There isn’t any clear data on this and there are many scenarios to justify any extreme. Suffice to say that a high capacity pistol will probably get you through any issue. But many of us carry small, pocket sized handguns that sacrifice handling and capacity for program compliance.

Pocket 380s and 9mms fall into this category but they do benefit from being easy to reload with additional magazines, though this is more awkward given the abbreviated controls of the gun. The situation is more precarious if you choose a wheel-gun as your concealed carry handgun. We know revolvers have their place and …Read the Rest

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