Gun Digest’s Why Revolvers for Concealed Carry? eShort: Why would someone choose concealed carry revolvers over semi-automatics?
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In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Grant Cunningham explains the advantages of revolvers over semi-autos for concealed carry and why you should consider carrying one.
Grant Cunningham
Grant Cunningham is a renowned self-defense author, teacher, and internationally known gunsmith (retired). He's the author of The Gun Digest Book of the Revolver, Shooter's Guide to Handguns, Defensive Pistol Fundamentals, and Handgun Training: Practice Drills for Defensive Shooting, and has written articles on shooting, self-defense, training and teaching for many magazines, shooting websites and his blog at grantcunningham.com.
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Why Revolvers for Concealed Carry?
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The revolver is still a viable choice for many kinds of shooting: recreation, hunting, or self defense.
Not that long ago the preferred handgun of both police and private citizens was the double action revolver. They were carried on duty, used to protect the home, shot in competition, and held their own as plinkers and fun guns. Their operation was well known, and learning how to properly handle their long, heavy triggers was a point of pride for many firearms instructors.
In the 1970s that started to change. The autoloading pistol was migrating from military service to law enforcement, and as it gained acceptance in those arenas the general public came to see the revolver as old-fashioned.
By the end of the century the autoloader had almost completely replaced the revolver in police service -- and for a large percentage of private citizens as well.
Today it’s rare to see a revolver in a police duty holster. On occasion you’ll find a veteran officer carrying one, and in sparsely populated areas some cops prefer them for their ability to fire powerful, flat-shooting Magnum cartridges. Other than that the revolver has been relegated to the status of the backup: an arm used to supplant the primary arm should it become inoperable or lost.
Still, nearly forty percent of all handgun sales in the U.S. are revolvers. That’s because the revolver still has some advantages - some obvious, some not - over the ubiquitous autoloader.
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