| From: | "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Heavy pistol damage |
| Date: | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:23:15 +0100 |
>If you want to consider them .50 cal that's fine too, but you have to
>assume that the technology of assault rifles and SMG's have developed as
>well. They may be using higher calibers and/or more advance loads to make
>them keep the same differences from pistols as guns today. We pretty much
>consider a 9mm to be the top end of the LP class in our game truthfully,
>but a 10mm or a .40 would be the low end of the HP class, if that puts it
>into perspective from our standpoint.
You forget that some people today - my wife, for instance - found 9mm a
handful, and .45ACP downright painful to fire.
Any improvements you get out of handguns will be in bullet design.
Remember, the FBI accepted the 10mm as a more effective calibre, then
dropped it when it proved to be too much of a handful for most agents to
accurately fire. Doesn't matter how deadly the bullet is, unless you can
hit the target with it.
I don't have a problem with 9mm/.45/.40cal being the standard calibres
in 2058; sixty years ago the standard calibres were 9mm, .38 and .45,
and .357 Magnum was a speciality round for the large and robust shooter
only.
--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
