Another pistol with a low bore is the Rhino Revolver.
It handles .357 quite nicely, tames the beast rather well
Although it looks as ugly as a real rhino...haha!
The Alien Pistol would have made .40 more tame and probably
saved the caliber from it's current " Average Women can't shoot it"
status...which is why the FBI ended up dumping it for 9mm.
They needed something that even bean counters could pass a Qual with.
.40 & .45 take a more serious shooter who practices,
whereas almost any spud can handle a 9mm.
Case in point, my 7-yr old sons can handle 9mm, so there ya go
Anyway, I like the Alien! Would love to try one out!
Absolutely . . ^^^^^ . .
At one point we got a non-classified briefing from an DIA agent that was indirectly associsted with that shootout. The FBI had a "how dare the bad guys use a Mini-14" attitude. My boss and I were both kinda stunned.
I had owned two of them for some years and one had been chopped to 14.5 inches and a brake pinned on to make it 16. A couple hours after the briefing,my boss called me and asked if I would bring them in the next day and allow several guys to shoot them at the military's off base range.
The next morning I grabbed a can of M193 and went to the range. (Take note: 5.56X45 in a 223Rem chamber) Several people shot both guns and as they were leaving I asked my boss if he thought the FBI knew that the corrections dept's had been using the Mini-14 (and GB) for some time now. He simply replied "NO".
Over the years I shot a ton of M193 ammo out of my Mini's. Never even thought about the difference. Shot some tracer through them also.
During the briefing I should have asked what ammo the BG's used,but didn't want to seem insensitive.
Some lessons are learned the hard way. The superior firepower thing should have been "a given". --- SAWMAN