Cylinder Magazine
Versus Revolver Pistol
There are a lot of emotional debate that is extraordinary and some misinformation bandied about lately about whether or not Victoria Police had to convert to a semi-automatic pistol.
This article will not try to justify whether or not Victoria Police must make changes, as The fact is that the Victoria Police WILL be converted into Pistols. I hope the changes will not be delayed any longer than it should affect the appropriate training curriculum, and the election the appropriate gun.
In this article, I compare the gun will focus primarily on the Glock, because today is the gun used by police in the AFP, NSW, NT, QLD, TAS, WA, Australian Customs Service, and even some parts of Victoria Police's. There is another version with a service pistol in the Australian government organization, but the largest number so far is the Glock.
Although I may refer to comments made by CC Nixon, this is not a direct criticism of him, because many of his comments are based on misunderstandings about the gun. This is simply a comparison of two weapons systems associated with the front-line law enforcement.
My experience? I have been trained and used both revolvers and pistols since 1991. I have been carrying a gun almost every day since 1997, and has participated in various training courses advanced with sidearms.
I'm not an "expert", but I have relevant experience and qualifications with both these weapons systems.
History
Revolver: The technology behind the gun is sometimes claimed to have been developed in the 1500s. This is not quite accurate. The "gun" was developed at the time a shot was the only weapon, which is also sometimes referred to as "gun".
Gun design today, with a revolving cylinder containing the ammunition fired by only one per barrel, has been linked with Samuel Colt in 1836, which when the patent granted to him for design.
Pistol: Hiram Stevens Maxim, (inventor of a mousetrap), creating a mechanism who fear a gun used by the current sometime between 1883 and 1885. Although he concentrated on the development of Vickers Machine Gun, its technology is the foundation for today's gun. Might one of the most famous gun today, Colt 1911, invented by John Browning in the late 1890's with Maxim technology and the exact same gun technology is being used successfully by the Police and Military to this day.
Both revolvers and pistols were developed from the original one-shot design in the 1500s, and the creation of the weapon less than 50 years apart in the 1800s. When one considers the historical examples of technological progress before the 1900's, 50-year gap is not significant.
Technology
Which is less likely to jam? Which is more secure for users? A revolver or a pistol? Let's see how they operate.
Revolver: The gun is the basic design, no doubt. Proper alignment of the shot pins, bullets, and barrel, are all controlled by the trigger. When you put pressure on the trigger, springs and pull the lever while a hammer again pushing the pawl pegs to rotate the cylinder containing the ammunition in place of firing pin and barrel. During the spring levers and do their job, then everything went perfectly. The problem is, because cylinder movement, there needs to be some space between the gun and cylinder frame. It is relatively easy for dirt and the courage to go into space, which could affect the proper alignment required to fire a round. Also, no need to stress to trigger the gun action. The hammer itself may be withdrawn, either intentionally or by catching on clothing, etc. when holstering, so it fell into the abyss. This may be prevented from hitting the hammer firing pin, causing weapon damage.
Pistol: As stated earlier, I will concentrate on Glock pistols for this discussion. The Glock does not have a hammer. All guns are working internally, and with thus making the system more protected from the elements. Australian Training Police use Glock system is to have a loaded weapon when carrying it. This means that no action needed for firearms other than just applying the trigger finger pressure. The trigger itself has an integral safety lever, which means that no one will activate the firing pin until the "trigger security "had been given emphasis.
Cycling of the action was caused by gunfire. Forces who fear a slide back the gun, which ejects the spent casing, and enter the next round into the room. This is a straight-line action, using a spring and a fear of guns. This design has been used by some weapons systems since the 1890s, with some weapons that are still being used today by the western military and police.
The main difference is only fired The first shots of a revolver and Glock pistols is that the pressure needed to fire the gun more than required for the Glock, because the pressure required to rotate the cylinder to place. This makes the correct view and continuous alignment much easier than with a Glock pistol, especially in the first shot is important.
There statements made that indicate that Glock will fire when he fell to the ground. Well, Glock himself has made thousands of "drop-test" for years, and never have Glock fired only from being dropped to the ground. A search on the Internet also fails to find a single incident that has proven this happened. Internal security mechanisms of the Glock, combined with no hammer, making physically impossible for the Glock that served to fire until the safety trigger depression.
Revolver on the other hand, is more vulnerable against fire, if it falls, because of the fact that the hammer can be activated separately for the trigger, and there is no security mechanism blocks the hammer from the firing pin strike.
There have been incidents of police shooting himself accidentally while holstering the Glock. That is a fact. The reason for this is to have your finger in the trigger guard when holstering gun. It's not a mistake from the gun, but from the regime of training given to officers involved. The same incident could happen to someone holstering Victoria Police Smith & Wesson revolver, because do not have the safety catch. Regardless of what weapon .... if you pull the trigger, it will fire.
However, one important aspect that needs to will be recognized by users and trainers of gun is that the termination WILL happen with a gun if the shooter does not store and grabbed her wrists straight while shooting. I have saw even experienced shooters after the termination of every single shot, because of poor grip and loose wrists. This is not a "mistake" of the gun, but only very simple techniques that need to be recognized.
Motor Skills
A very quick explanation of "skills motor ":
Gross motor skills - Large muscle groups: Walking, running, etc.
Fine motor skills - can be defined as needed using the finger: Shooting.
Complex motor skills - Multiple muscle groups and hand-eye coordination: writing, etc.
It is a simple fact that the stress of being shot or attacked by someone who showed intent to kill will cause a decrease in the first complex motor skills. If the stress increases, the fine motor skills will deteriorate next, and finally your gross motor skills.
Revolver: Fine skills motor is required for firearms, (pictures from the holster and pulled the trigger). Complex motor skills needed to take back, (open the cylinder, rotate the forearm and hit the ejection rod, looking for the cylinder, put into the cylinder speedloader and play, close the cylinder). This also requires clear master hand from the weapon, which is not a choices that must be done when shot at. Note that you MUST take your eyes from the threat to reload.
Direct action of firing a gun does not just pull the trigger.
If you can not count the shots, which normally during the battle, there is no indication that the gun was empty, meaning you can waste precious seconds to do direct action training without bullets.
Pistol: Fine motor skills needed for fire weapons, (the image of his holster and pulled the trigger). Fine motor skills needed to take back, (Master's hand remains on the weapon hits the thumb while the magazine release, mag rips a weak hand and drops out, reach out and insert a new magazine, then rack the slide). No complex motor skills involved, and remain in the hands of a master of weapons. With adequate training, the drill bit reload can be done without seeing a weapon.
Direct action gun misfiring is hitting the base of the magazine, racked the slide, and then pulled the trigger, (if necessary).
If you can not count the shots, which normally in battle, you know the gun was empty when the slide lock to the back, saving valuable time assessing the status of your weapon.
The main point here is that although the reloading of the gun takes out the master's hand of weapons, taking your eyes from the threat, and the use of complex motor skills, not guns. While direct action revolver is simpler than the pistol, reloading problem, (and recognition), with a gun far exceeds the benefits of the IA drill.
Tactical reload
Tactical reload is what is I describe as the need to replace the spent ammunition with fresh ammunition, without having fired all the bullets. Think about having fired several rounds at a threat, and then take cover. You still have bullets in the gun, but the threat was not neutralized.
Revolver: The only how to successfully do this in a deadly threat environment is to do a full reload, which we have shown requires the use of complex motor skills, remove his hands from the weapon master, and take your eyes from the threat.
Pistol: tactical reload for the gun once again, exactly the same as normal again, which only requires fine motor skills, keep your master's hand on the weapon, and the eyes on the threat. There is also still a round in the room, and the weapons are still can be fired even if you do not have time to load a magazine.
Ammunition Capacity
Revolver: The current weapons used by Victoria Police took 6 shots, with extra ammunition carried in speedloaders of 6 shots each.
Pistol: Depending on the type selected Glock. AFP, Tasmania and the Australian Customs Service uses 9mm Glocks that come with a 17-round magazines. The Glocks used by NSW, NT, QLD, & WA is, 40 caliber guns, which comes with a 15-round magazines. Both systems allow management to put the magazine, which will be actioned guns / loaded, and the magazine then "topped up "with one more round, which means the capacity of 18 rounds of ammunition and 16 rounds of ammunition each.
The problems faced should not be whether a Police Force can be justified in carrying out 18 / 16 projectile weapons. Problems should be whether the staff needed a weapon system is better than that currently in use. If the answer for is yes, then the capacity of ammunition can be discussed later.
However, current thinking of some police managers is that the police do not need that plenty of ammunition, and that is the reason for not considering a gun. I do not agree. Even with the laws of the current firearms in Australia, had been an incident this year alone the criminals shot 40 shots at the house, etc. If the criminals have access to a semi-automatic weapons, they then have the ability to place a large number of rounds downrange Police.
But if the police need a large number of bullets fired back?
On August 3, 1998, Rod Ansell was shot in two co I, the Sergeant Glen Huitson and Senior Constable Jamie O'Brien. Ansell hiding behind a concrete pipe. After Ansell shot a member of the community, and Sergeant Huitson shot, S / C O'Brien returned fire with a Remington 870 rifle. He emptied the gun in the direction that Ansell has the effect Ansell keep your head down to S / C O'Brien could position himself in a better position than the fire. He then uses Ansell Glock to shoot once he was in a position advantage.
I'll bet the important of my anatomy that will come a time in the near future when a Victoria Police officers will be asked to fire at a threat only to prevent the threat of shooting you are welcome. This is called "cover fire". Provide cover fire with a 6-shot revolver is like throwing a pebble in a truck that moves in an effort to stop it. This is not an effective method.
In 1995, two NSW Police, a senior Constables Addison and Spears, they were ambushed and killed. Coroner recommends "that the suitability of today's weapons will look at the Police Service and that immediate attention be given to supply and issue self-loading weapon with a magazine."
On November 19, 1995, quoted Honorable Elaine NILE NSW Police in August 1995 in the NSW Parliament which states,
In article Geoff Beresford argued against Smith and Wesson revolvers:
Some experts argue that the semi-automatic issue should not be made public when they traffic and the average police will not maintain them. They also said that the semi-auto's should only be available for special police, such as the SPG What they fail to tell us is that the semi-automatic pistols that they failed to use it after the shooting more than two thousand rounds without cleaning. Clearly, their arguments are not based on objective facts.
This is a test conducted in New South Wales. Regardless of what happens to the royal commission, a member Police should be armed services to protect themselves properly so that they have confidence when they fight criminals. Police owed to them.
On April 18, 1996, Mr Paul Whelan, Minister for NSW Police, stated, "Reloading old gun is a clumsy process that too often proved fatal."
What about the Walsh Street in 1988? Victoria Police Police Police Tynan and Eyre experiments were killed by up to 6 criminals intend to kill them. Or 10 years later when the Victoria Police Sergeant Silk and Senior Constable Miller was killed by 2 criminals? This is a proven fact that the Victoria Police not only found a villain. When a Officer faced with up to 6 criminals trying to kill him, do 6 shots really seems to be enough?
Then we have the situation on May 13 in when a senior policeman David McHenry and Adam McKenzie Police deal with criminals armed with semi-automatic pistol in Melbourne. Fortunately, both the surviving officer.
So, if the Victoria Police require that firearms be 16 or 18 shots before the need reloaded? I hope not. But as the saying goes, "Better to have something and does not need it, than need it and not have it. "
Change the sidearms used by Victoria Police for semi-automatic pistol was not can happen overnight. The selection process was appropriate weapon takes time unfortunately. Creation of an appropriate training curriculum also takes time. Most of this can happen concurrently, however, and must, therefore reducing the time required to complete the front lines of Victoria's Thin Blue Line with a far more effective tool OSTT.
Keep pushing for the conversion, but using logic, not emotion. Using the system, do not fight it.
Stay safe.
Doug Nicholson
This article about finding the volume of a cylinder?
My math teacher showed us an article from a magazine she had found the other day about finding the volume of circle, he told us it has to do with the search area of a circle and height, etc. He also gave us each a copy of the article. He wants us to guess how many jellybeans are in the displayed image. I lost the article. Does anyone know where I can find an article online?
Not without telling our magazine's name. Assuming even IS available on-line.
