• Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    The caliber one seems silly. A 9mm is .35 inches but has about the same power of a .45 but a .357 is more powerful than both

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      13 hours ago

      it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea, or Vietnam; and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.

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      11 hours ago

      Oh man, caliber debates. This shit is way more complicated than just X is more powerful than Y

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        10 hours ago

        Nah the sig has way more feats if you read the lore. Honestly I think the power scaling is all over the place. Magnums are on fraud watch tbh haven’t done shit for feats in years.

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        11 hours ago

        That’s not at all what it’s specifying. It says “don’t carry a handgun with a caliber lower than .40”

        It’s pro-45ACP / anti-9mm boomer gun shit. I have no clue where you’re getting this “smaller means rifle” from the image posted. Like yeah, typically smaller means rifle, but that’s not at all what the image says.

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          10 hours ago

          Oh, yeah you’re right. I read that wrong. I was reading that as if the caliber of the gun fight is less than .4, don’t bring a handgun.