re my gun is like my american express card what seems to be happening here is the situation getting totally blown out of proportion in my post i was referring to your regular patrolman in a car cruising around the city vs gang members of course the police have access to the things that you mentioned but do they use tanks and such all of the time of course they don t and that s the point i was trying to make every day when i go out to lunch i always see cops coming in the majority that i see are still carrying revolvers not that there is anything wrong with a revolver but if you re a cop that is up against some gang member with a couple of automatics in his coat i mean semi auto handguns you re going to be at a disadvantage even with training i have been at a shooting range where gang gang members were practicing shooting they were actually practicing taking out their guns as quick as possible and shooting at the target and they weren t doing too badly either the university cops here who are are state cops are armed better than the chicago police it seems most state cops are i don t know where you are originally from david but you live in tennesse and i live in chicago and see this crap everyday on the news and in the papers i think the situation is just a tad different here than there however don t forget that the police in chicago can carry just about anything they want except for the glock which is not approved for carry guess they figure all cops are like the police chief of winnetka who happened to let off a stray round of mm this is the same anti gun police chief that wanted full auto uzis for his patrol cars perhaps in the judgement of the majority of chicago s finest a close to reliable weapon like a revolver is preferable to a reliable automatic i note that in germany where certainly the mm semi auto handgun is king some of the more elite police types want revolvers i don t think the issue is cost because chicago police certainly make on the order of at least k year your presumption of disadvantage i think is not borne out by the experiences of new york city s cops there the cops usually come out on top with their standard spl revolvers i ve seen s ws rugers and beretta mms in addition to the revolvers carried by chicago cops in the past i ve seen m s others have seen browning hi powers jason
