In a message dated 8/15/03 4:57:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
carrotglace@mindspring.com writes:

    "Please," muttered Faye as she reached over to pop open the glove
compartment. "Oh wow! This is great! I think we stole that guy's car!
This one was probably waiting for him." Two forty-five millimeter
handguns and a shoulder harness for them fell out onto the seat. 

A gun's caliber is the measurement of the diameter of the bullet it fires and 
thus width of the the barrel.  European countries measure this using metric 
measurements thus calibers such as 9 mm, which is about .38 inches across.  
America stills uses the standard English system of measure, in regard to firearms 
a system of 1/100 of an inch is used.  One one-hundredth of an inch equals 
one caliber in the American parlance.  45 caliber equals .45 inches or 
approximately 11.5 millimeters.

Now if Ranma is running around with handguns that fire a 45 millimeter wide 
bullet he doesn't have much to worry about from much anything short of a tank.  
(however I wouldn't want his wrists after trying to shoot something like 
that.)

Also automatic handguns do not use "clips" to feed ammunition into the 
chamber, they use magazines.

For further information please go here:     
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3adc968d4083f7f2df4964d7172080cb&threadid=134189&
highlight=clip+magazine+difference

For firearms research in general please visit www.thehighroad.org

Otherwise I loved it, great work as always Mr. Glace, or can I call you 
Carrot?  ^_^

Later

Outlaw 1



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