This makes little sense. There are a great many .22 pistols which have external hammers or an sufficient safety. Why would you have to rack a slide, other than when you first loaded. With most, if not all, semi-auto handguns, you always carry a round in the chamber anyway, for one, to be ready, for two because it's one more round. Nobody, but nobody, walks around with an empty chamber, whatever the caliber. David Honig wrote:
At 02:52 PM 12/30/01 -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
At 7:33 AM -0800 12/29/01, David Honig wrote:
Mossad prefers suppressed Berretta .22 which doesn't need racking.
Actually they're fond of using the single action Beretta model 70s in .22lr. I believe that's what arms designer Gerald Bull was killed with. <http://216.117.150.77/beretta/70_us.html>.
The motivation I understood for the B 22's is that the tip up barrel means you don't have to rack a slide.
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