Massad Ayoob - Is .380 Enough for Self-Defense? Selecting the correct ammunition. Critical Mas EP 59

thanks hello guys, welcome back to the Wilson Combat channel. My name is Masada yube and we are speaking with you today from the Wilson Combat facility in Berryville Arkansas. We heard your feedback here on the Wilson Combat YouTube channel and received a question. The question is: Do we think 380 is

enough

? The answer, I'm afraid, is that it depends. The 380 ACP. It's not colloquially called nine millimeters short for nothing. It is a limited power cartridge whose purpose was to fit a very small pistol. Now, today we are. We are seeing a revival of the 380 for two reasons: first, the pistol is the size of a small Kel-Tec p3at and the Ruger LCP are basically the size of some of the 25 cars of decades past, they allow for comfortable, discreet carry and hidden, particularly in npes. non-permissive environments which I would define as somewhere where it is technically legal for the individual to carry, but perhaps politically in

correct

or could be seen as embarrassing or not a good career move, so it is important to have a very small pistol, very discreetly concealable, another element.

The 380 options are people my age with crippled arthritic hands and hands that are very sensitive to the recoil of a pistol like the Glock 42, for example, which can be shot with seven or more .380 rounds and is almost like shooting a .22. and much easier. To handle the problem with the 380 historically has been that it has

enough

power to drive a round nose metal jacket deep enough or to expand a hollow point bullet, but not to do both, we found that, in general, the reason why The one originally obtained from 1908 when the reputation of being almost impotent as a men's stopper was that the round nose profile created a wrinkled, dimpled wound like an ice pick that would kill but tended not to immediately stop the way the Larger caliber bullets could do so due to the advent of hollow points. a little more dynamic, but the 380 simply doesn't have enough power in most loads to expand the bullet to the 12-inch depth that the FBI considers the minimum necessary, which we've seen with some of the newer ones.

ammunition

developments like the Lehigh here this is the Lehigh It appears as if based on testing, a significantly wide wound path for incapacitation will be combined with adequate penetration of the solid projectile.

Time will tell there aren't enough of them now to really have a database of real shootings. In fact, I haven't found any that say If I were limited to the 380 for reasons of requiring very slight recoil due to hand injuries, etc., or the gun being very small and very flat, I would certainly explore using this type of ammo with any gun and any Duty ammo you want to get. of those Duty rounds through the gun as possible to make sure it's going to work for you and you want to make sure that if you have weakened hands, it's going to work with a relaxed grip, which means you have a lot of strength. ammo through it to make sure it's going to work at 100, not all like that, but occasionally with my hand like that because it can be that way when you really need it, some attackers are obviously tougher than others looking at my own files cases. or I was involved as an expert witness, we had one where an almost 300 pound man in a state of rage was charging at the defender, the defender fired one shot with an AMT Backup 380. uh, a Winchester ball and it hit him exactly in the bullet. hit the top of the heart with the aorta was branching and when the thoracic spines separated from the spinal cord and the man fell like a rock and did not survive on the other end of the spectrum one of my graduates had to shoot an assailant, This guy weighed about 180 pounds, uh, the guy was coming at him trying to disarm him and kill him.

He had to shoot her seven times with a Sig p230 380 jacketed hollow points. The guy finally stopped attacking him. He was breathing hard. He put his hands on his thighs as if he was catching his breath, he sat down, lay down and did not get up again. That officer, of course, was authorized to shoot in

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defense

and I believe that was the last time he carried a 380 as his primary weapon. You can actually see that on the other side of the map. board with some of the most powerful rounds, remember that much of the stopping power element will not be quantifiable because it is in the body and mind of your opponent, not in the ballistics of your shot, which says that the less powerful you are. the weapon. the less trauma it will cause, trauma and damage to the organism that is trying to kill you is what we need to achieve in order for that organism to stop trying to kill you and 380 is generally considered to be on the lower edge of acceptable. called stop power, it is significant that police departments in the United States do not issue them, since you know, they do not issue 380s as primary service pistols.

Obviously, the armed citizen is not a police officer, but one thing we learned from law enforcement is that they are residents. Professionals in dealing with the exact same violent criminals that the citizen has armed him

self

with to protect himself and his family personally. I'm not comfortable with any automatic pistol under nine millimeters as a primary weapon, but I can dress like a bum if I want and I'm not in a non-demonstrative environment most of the time, the 380 may be the best option for you in certain situations, if so, use the best and most effective

ammunition

you can, the less powerful the cartridge, the more important the choice of ammunition is that there are X number of law-abiding concealed carry needs and that style pistol satisfies better than others.

Life is a commitment and so is the 380 ACP. We wish you the best of luck. Subscribe to Wilson. Combat Channel and we are looking for your comments, it is from your comments that episodes like this are derived, see you in the future, thanks for watching.