The Desert Eagle automatic
They come from Israel. We used to get them in exchange for all kinds of stuff we sent over there.
Very heavy. 14" barrel, more than a foot and a half long, front to back.
They didn't have any to show me, in Cabela's gun library in Reno, when I asked to see one.
This was the eight-shot .44 version. Takes eight .44 magnum shells. Not what you would call a subtle weapon. The bullet weighs about twice as much as the .38 in a police revolver. It leaves the barrel going way faster than the speed of sound. It hits the target wih more force than anything this side of a train wreck. Not subtle at all.
Ammunition is a problem. You've got a choice. If you load up with a hard-nose bullet, it goes right through the guy you're shooting, and probably right through some other guy a hundred yards away. So you use a soft-nose bullet and it blows a hole out of your guy about the size of a garbage can.
Your choice.
Good for collectors. This would never be a service piece. No police department would authorize the use of a cannon like this on the job.
Way too heavy.
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