-=> Quoting John Sandow to Steve Gunhouse on 14 May 96  21:30 <=-
 Re: handgun/longgun 
 SG>What about S&W's new, improved 9-shot M-17? And I hear Taurus will now be
 SG>making a 10-shot. If the 9-shot was an "evil-assault-revolver", does that
 SG>make a 10-shot a tactical nuclear weapon? :-O
 JS> Yeah, with depleted uranium penetrators that make little mini nuclear
 JS> explosions on impact...  :-)
 JS> On a related subject, one of the guys I worked with was in the navy
 JS> for 4 years.  I forget what his job was, but it was not a metalurgist. 
 JS> He was describing the Phlanx ship defense system that uses a 20mm
 JS> vulcan cannon, and informed me that the gun used 'depleted titanium
 JS> rounds'.  Must be heck on the barrel walls, eh?  :-)
 JS> But they are going to be making a 10 round, huh?   I saw an 8, yes
 JS> eight,  round .357 of theirs.  The cylinder must have been 2" in
 JS> diameter...
How does one "deplete" titanium anyway? Oh, the depleted uranium in those 
rounds is only the core anyway, so maybe his "depleted titanium" would be 
too.
I've seen the 8-shot .357, actually didn't seem that much bigger than 
their 7-shot. I'd have to guess that they're using their .44 frame and 
cylinder (though I've never seen them side by side to compare).
As far as the 10-shot, I can only go by what people who should be 
knowledgeable tell me - and they say yes. I have no more direct knowledge 
of Brazil than the next guy. Think they'll put a .22 in their .44 frame 
and make a 12-shot next? 
Steve
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