Re:Your heart rate at gunpoint
by travisby on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @08:54AM
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I don't have much to contribute, but it's always great to hear a fellow carrier on Hacker News. Especially one who carries a 1911. Glad there's a couple of us here.
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For me, it's not entirely a "choice", they've fit my hand like a glove since I was a teen and I can shoot them very well whatever the quality of trigger or sights.
But I'm quite happy to carry one of the greatest legacies of John Moses Browning, and I marvel at how mature this technology is, where century old designs like the the Mauser 1898 rifle and the 1911 handgun are entirely competitive with the shiny new stuff, albeit maybe not quite as easy and inexpensive to manufacture or maintain.