Choices of small handguns

[David Honig]

At 02:53 PM 12/30/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>(* I've heard some claim that stainless steel is not a good idea, as it 
>glints in the dark. Perhaps, but this seems like a second-order effect 
>for any real use. It is also possible to get it in blackened stainless, 
>as the SIGs are commonly in.)

I've heard that (presumably early) stainless was subject to 
galling, presumably fixed.  IANAMetallurgist.

As far as specular reflection goes, consider how many wear
shiny watches which would be largely in the plane of the slide.


dh