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Better To Have Enough Than To Run Dry In A Firefight

By Patrick, on April 24th, 2010 | Skip to comments

Gun pun­dit posts the story about the police offi­cers, in Boston, who shot and killed a cou­ple of dogs that attacked them on a call about them attack­ing a poo­dle. The police had to fire 11 rounds to put the two dogs down.

Gun Pundit notes that one of the news reporters on scene cov­er­ing the story said “I’m not sure why they even had that many bul­lets”. Let me get this straight. A MSM reporter is not sure why two police offi­cers would be car­ry­ing 11 rounds of ammo. Together.

For pur­poses of this exeri­cise I will go ahead and assume that they were using semi-​automatic pis­tols in a 9mm, .40, or .45 cal­iber. The arti­cle doesn’t say what they were car­ry­ing. Even if they were car­ry­ing the 7-​shot 1911 of any vari­ety of man­u­fac­turer, they would have been car­ry­ing at least 14 rounds between the two. I can guar­an­tee you that any police offi­cer car­ry­ing today is also car­ry­ing spare mag­a­zines. So going with my 1911 sce­nario, they would have been car­ry­ing 28 rounds sep­a­rately or 56 rounds together. Some of the semi-​autos will carry 20 and 21 rounds though.

All of my tac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence, read­ing, etc tells me to have at least two spare mag­a­zines. Because I carry a Springfield .40 XD, I have 36 rounds on my per­son. Why? Because I can­not say when, how, or how many peo­ple I might have to pro­tect myself from. I would carry a case of ammo on me if it wouldn’t pull my pants to my knees from the weight. If I have to pull my firearm and I die doing so, it will not be because I ran out of ammo. It is bet­ter to go home with rounds in my pocket than to be found dead with an empty mag­a­zine and no spares. You can quote me on that.

If you are going to defend your­self with a firearm, you should be car­ry­ing two spares. If you are com­fort­able car­ry­ing more than two spares, carry more. If you are able, carry a sec­ond firearm. After all, a backup gun is a spare mag­a­zine with a firearm wrapped around it or put another way — a MRU (Magazine, ready to use©).

h/​t James @ Hell In A Handbasket

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