RW> BR> Absent proper training they are hard to use well - but I
 RW> A full auto HANDGUN would be IMPOSSIBLE to use well.
 RW> If the weight was low enough to make it firable one
 RW> handed (hence the term HANDgun) the rate of fire would
 RW> be so high the recoil would make it uncontrollable.  To
 RW> reduce the rate of fire the slide would have to be so
 RW> heavy to make it to heavy to carry.
I've never used one, so I don't know.  The Glock design seems to be easier to 
shoot well than my Dad's 1911 - something about barrel placement relative to 
hand location  and torque moment about the axis of the barrel pivot point or 
attach point.  ANYTHING can be learned - but whether it's worth it I can't 
say.
 RW> BR> seriously doubg  they'd be built if there weren't a
 RW> BR> perceived need, in the form of a market.  Around here, all
 RW> They were designed and produced at the request of the
 RW> pentagon.  Like a lot of weapon designs it was thought
 RW> up by someone who didn't really know what he was doing.
 RW> It was thought that the special ops types could use it.
 RW> Needless to say NOBODY wanted it.
The Swiss cops use it for something - Glock takes its orders other places 
than 
the Pentagon.  Now Beretta might've done smething for the Pentagon since they 
got the military business, but I doubt Glock cares much what those domes 
nt.
 RW> BR> we have for on-duty is 17 and 19, with a few folks that have
 RW> BR>  bought their own 26 (which I intend to do as soon as I run
 RW> BR> across the dougn  without something breaking that costs a
 RW> I know that feeling.  I've been trying to save up for a
 RW> nice stainless steel 4" double action 45 Long Colt
 RW> revolver.  But so far it has turned into a new washer
 RW> and then into a new water heater then into an ER visit
 RW> now it has turned into a dental work for the wife and
 RW> daughter.
Been there done all of that - new transmission in one car, new motherboard 
for 
one computer, laser printer because one daughter is ding lots of writing, 
another car because we have too many drivers - about 20 26's in just that....
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