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President Ronald Reagan revealed he wore hearing aids in 1983, leading to greater acceptance and increased sales of the devices among seniors. At age 72, he said that his hearing loss dated to his early Hollywood days when a .38-caliber blank was fired close to his right ear on a film set
The 45 caliber Colt 1911 was adopted because the issued 38 caliber revolvers couldn't stop the Moro guerillas the US Army was fighting in the Philippines
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In May 2007, a man was singing the song "My Way" during karaoke and was shot and killed as he sang. The security guard was complaining that the man's rendition was off-key, and when the victim refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot the man dead.
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In 1992, a judge in Florida responded to a handcuffed defendant's threat by pulling a .38-caliber revolver out of his robe, placed one bullet inside, & told the defendant to "go ahead and take your best shot."
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In 2007, a 29-year-old karaoke singer of the Sinatra tune "My Way" was shot dead at a bar in the Phillipines. The bar's security guard had complained that the young man's rendition was off-key, and when the he refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot him dead.
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U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt was once shot in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver, but still managed to give an 84-minute speech to an audience in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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President Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest by a .38 caliber pistol. He refused treatment and went and gave an 80 minute speech. The bullet was slowed by his folded 50 page speech, and was left lodged against his ribs.
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Theodore Roosevelt, during the campaign of 1912, was shot in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver from 7 feet away before he gave a speech before 10k people. He gave the speech anyway with the bullet in his chest and bleeding through his shirt, then went to the hospital afterward. Badass!
