Thread: 32 pistol

Not much knock down power. But something is better than nothing. More people have been killed with a .22 lr than you would believe by accident. So all it had to do is deter some one to not fight anymore.

Will do the trick, if its cheap get it.

Knock down power for what?

Is it clean? By that I mean can it be traced back to you? If not go for it. But don't make no payments on it, buy it outright.

I'm going to get kind of gun nerd on you, but this is something that you need to know:

Standard handguns do not have secondary wounding characteristics at all, which is what people consider "knock down power". The hole that the bullet pokes is about as much tissue damage as one can expect from the firearm. After all, handgun rounds are traveling at around 1,000 fps. Good rifle rounds are traveling three times that speed, maybe more. So, whether it's a 9mm, 38 spl., .45 acp., 40, .357 Sig, etc., you're not really dealing with a consistent man stopper. What you really have is a hole-poker. After all, roughly 80% of handgun-related injuries survive. It just takes that long for someone to bleed out if they're not shot somewhere really important like the head, heart, or spine.

What does make a difference is penetration. How deep will the bullet travel through muscle and such. FBI minimum is something like 9" of penetration in order to reach vital organs. This is typically accomplished with anything larger/faster than a .38 spl or .38 spl+P. Can a .32 kill someone? Sure can. The French used that cartridge to clean up trenches in WWI, but they were probably head-shooting wounded Germans. However, I would want something with greater penetration for daily carry.

Originally Posted by slimeyslab

Is it clean? By that I mean can it be traced back to you? If not go for it. But don't make no payments on it, buy it outright.

Be nice to the new guy Slimey, dont want to run him off!!!!!! And I agree with you, ifn he can get it with no pares then go for it!~!!!!

Big enough for what

I wouldn't call a .410 a standard handgun round, either. It's traveling at roughly twice the speed of a standard handgun round- 1,800 fps. vs. 900 fps.