simonrichter
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Interesting post. Yet, the only issue that comes to my mind is the surge of sub-compact pistols that came with the concealed carry boom. Super small 9mm or even .45 pistols are abut the only real innovation within the last 20 years.
Everything else is, all considered, the same stuff in a new package, since the last actual innovations were the wonder nines and the Glock-triggered polymer boom. And even these were just re-inventions, after all: The Browning High Power dates back to the 30ies, striker-firing systems even further, and also polymer guns had already been there for 20 years when Glock hit the market in the eighties.
The same goes for the size, given that the classic pocket guns of the early 20th century where even considerably smaller (!) than today (granted, they came in comparatively anemic calibers)
To say it with The Preacher: "There is nothing new under the sun."
To be honest, apart from lasers and possibly "smart" electronic equipment (that most of us anyway eye with scepticism): Is there any core performance parameter where modern handguns really outgun those of WWI (or at least WWII)? Of course, things have become more ergonomical, lighter etc., but would someone equipped with say the best WWII pistols have a real-life disadvantage against someone with the most sophisticated modern polymer-striker whatsoever things? I doubt it.
Everything else is, all considered, the same stuff in a new package, since the last actual innovations were the wonder nines and the Glock-triggered polymer boom. And even these were just re-inventions, after all: The Browning High Power dates back to the 30ies, striker-firing systems even further, and also polymer guns had already been there for 20 years when Glock hit the market in the eighties.
The same goes for the size, given that the classic pocket guns of the early 20th century where even considerably smaller (!) than today (granted, they came in comparatively anemic calibers)
To say it with The Preacher: "There is nothing new under the sun."
To be honest, apart from lasers and possibly "smart" electronic equipment (that most of us anyway eye with scepticism): Is there any core performance parameter where modern handguns really outgun those of WWI (or at least WWII)? Of course, things have become more ergonomical, lighter etc., but would someone equipped with say the best WWII pistols have a real-life disadvantage against someone with the most sophisticated modern polymer-striker whatsoever things? I doubt it.