As this is being written, we’re closing out the year 2022 and heading into 2023. The theme of this period in time is “Retro.”
The two biggest productions on streaming TV right now are adaptations of works by mid-20th century fantasy titans George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien. Sales of vinyl albums and 35mm photographic film are up. And Brazilian firearms manufacturer Taurus has released an entirely new upmarket “Executive” line with a debut model that’s a fixed-iron-sight .38 Special revolver.
What’s the attraction? Why are we seriously looking at revolvers here in an era of self-driving electric cars and artificial intelligence photo art?
Well, before we look at where we are, let’s look at where we came from …
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Militaries and police forces of European countries were quick to embrace the technology of self-loading pistols, as there wasn’t much of a tradition of combat handgunnery that the new tech had to overcome. Not so in the U.S. of A. Sure, the military was reasonably quick to adopt a standard semi-auto, but its
