I saw a pretty neat picture over at Oleg Volk's place. It is my opinion that for a person driving a car a pistol is the only viable (well a sawed off shotgun or some sort of an SMG but those have legal hoops/ issues) weapon. Seriously if you have ever maneuvered a rifle in a vehicle you would know why. Unless you are driving with the muzzle hanging out the window there is no way you could get it onto target in time. At close ranges you can hit targets while moving slowly but it is probably not the best way to go.
Getting to your piece quickly is important. I would seriously look at the Universal Vehicle Handgun Mount. One of these is on my short list when we get back to the states. I wouldn't store a gun in one of these as it is visible but putting it in the vehicle mounted holster for long drives and locking it up or putting it on your person when you leave the car is probably a darn good way to go.
For this very narrow scenario I am not convinced that kind of pistol really matters much. Especially if your concerns are somebody trying to hit you with an impact weapon or pull you out of the car it would almost be a contact shot. You probably don't need that many bullets and the target is going to be aweful close. Even the uber common but rather unimpressive snubby .38 might just be fine for this job.
Beyond having a piece......
Pay attention to what is around you. You might not watch the local news in every place you could end up on a long drive and may miss the national news for a few days now and then. However you can look at what is going on in the area you are driving in. If there are large unhappy seeming groups of people on the sidewalks and in the street it is a sign that you need to consider another route. If there is an angry mob yelling and throwing stuff and burning things then haul butt to someplace else.
Lock your doors. Obviously this is not a cure all because cars have windows. Speaking of windows you might want to keep them rolled up in populated areas, admittedly a hard thing to do in a car without AC in the South during the summer. However it will prevent someone from just grabbing or hitting you. That split second will let you grab a piece or hit the gas or both.
Speed is security. I have never heard of somebody driving 40 miles an hour getting pulled out of their car and whooped on. DO NOT STOP. I certainly wouldn't advise you to hit somebody with your vehicle or drive on the sidewalk under normal circumstance; however some circumstances are not normal and you will have to use your best judgement.
One might look at the kind of areas (Watts, Detroit, LA, etc) that had significant riots in the past and see some commonalities. You can look at these events as well as others and draw your own conclusions.
Anyway that pretty much sums up my thoughts on that.
For this very narrow scenario I am not convinced that kind of pistol really matters much. Especially if your concerns are somebody trying to hit you with an impact weapon or pull you out of the car it would almost be a contact shot. You probably don't need that many bullets and the target is going to be aweful close. Even the uber common but rather unimpressive snubby .38 might just be fine for this job.
Beyond having a piece......
Pay attention to what is around you. You might not watch the local news in every place you could end up on a long drive and may miss the national news for a few days now and then. However you can look at what is going on in the area you are driving in. If there are large unhappy seeming groups of people on the sidewalks and in the street it is a sign that you need to consider another route. If there is an angry mob yelling and throwing stuff and burning things then haul butt to someplace else.
Lock your doors. Obviously this is not a cure all because cars have windows. Speaking of windows you might want to keep them rolled up in populated areas, admittedly a hard thing to do in a car without AC in the South during the summer. However it will prevent someone from just grabbing or hitting you. That split second will let you grab a piece or hit the gas or both.
Speed is security. I have never heard of somebody driving 40 miles an hour getting pulled out of their car and whooped on. DO NOT STOP. I certainly wouldn't advise you to hit somebody with your vehicle or drive on the sidewalk under normal circumstance; however some circumstances are not normal and you will have to use your best judgement.
One might look at the kind of areas (Watts, Detroit, LA, etc) that had significant riots in the past and see some commonalities. You can look at these events as well as others and draw your own conclusions.
Anyway that pretty much sums up my thoughts on that.
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"Speed is security"
No doubt. Used to work around the bad part of town. More than once I mashed the throttle, lit up the back tires, and blew a red light when some shady character approached my truck in the wee hours. Horsepower is your friend. If I was in a Hyundai I might not be here today...
I have the exact holster shown in the photo...well, mine's the larger one that can accommadate a pistol-mounted light. Love it, wish I'd bought a second at the gun show for my wife's car (she's jealous). Not something I use on a daily basis, but for any situation I would consider medium or high threat, the Glock goes in it. Nothing could possibly give you a faster draw. Also, it has an extra mag pouch, it's universally adjustable, and in a pinch, you could put it on your belt or clip it inside your waistband for carry.
Once upon a time we headed out to the range, 5 of us packed in my sister's ancient Valiant (that could maybe do 60 downhill with a decent wind). Unhappy with our speed, two characters with a jacked up pickup pulled up beside us and commenced to force us off the road. A LOT of barrels popped out of the side windows; two .44's, a .45, a 9mm, a .357 and a .25 (my sister's, she didn't want recoil to interfere with her driving). The truck passenger screamed at his buddy, and the pickup took off. No one hurt, no damage done, hopefully the idiots learned something.
From what I recall of Reginald Denny's film footage of his beating, one of his errors was stopping to avoid running over people in front of the vehicle when he got yanked out. If he had avoided stopping, he probably would have been able to avoid it altogether.
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