Shooting the upper

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by Vlim

The problem with police forces in European countries is that they have to do a lot of loading and unloading. The guns are usually kept in lockers or arsenals outside of duty hours, so they go through a continuous cycle of loading and unloading rounds. It even puts so much strain on the firing pins (releasing after unloading) that several modern police issue guns had modified firing pins to help withstand the strain of continued dry firing.

US Army military police, same thing. We would get 10 loose rounds and load two magazines. We weren't supposed to load the chamber, but sometimes we did. In combat, it would be loaded (cocked and locked, talking 1911a1) all the time as far as I would be concerned.