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.22 RIMFIRE Life-saver or Widow-maker?

CONVENTIONAL wisdom says you should not trust your life to anything less than a hot .38 Special, or a 9mm Parabellum – and there are some who believe even those calibres are only marginally effective!

But, for well over one hundred and thirty years, men and women, and in some cases children, have effectively protected home and hearth with the lowly .22LR. How is that even possible, and why? In most cases it is because it’s the firearm they had and saw no reason to change it, plus it’s cheap to shoot, and always there.

Over the years .22LR revolvers,

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