45 Caliber facts
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Russia’s toughest prison uses Caucasian Mountain Shepard as guard dogs. They weigh up to 200lbs, stand 6ft tall and are said to have the stopping power of a .45 Caliber Gun.
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 WW2, Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero with a M1911 .45 caliber pistol. He killed the pilot who had just shot down his B24. The Zero had returned to kill the airmen who had parachuted out. Baggett, wounded, played dead until the plane got close enough and then he shot the pilot.
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Danny Simpson, he robbed $6,000 from a bank in Ottawa. He used his father’s gun, which was a rare 1918 .45-caliber Colt semi-automatic valued at over $100,000. The gun went to a Canadian museum and Simpson went to jail.
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When Emmett Tills body was finally autopsied doctors found: "extensive cranial damage, a broken left femur, and two broken wrists" and "metallic fragments were found in the skull consistent with being shot with a .45 caliber gun"
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Although Colt .45 caliber pistol were thought to have been used by US troops as effective "man stoppers" against Moro "berserker" warriors at the 1913 Battle of Bud Bagsak, the shipment of them had not yet arrived and the "man stopper" Winchester Model 1897 shotguns were actually used.
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Auditing process"R2-45" in Scientology. Specifically it means shooting the target with a 45 caliber pistol. L. Ron Hubbard ordered any Sea Org member who encountered certain Church detractors to perform auditing process R2-45.
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When David killed Goliath, if you do the calculations on the ballistics on the stopping power of the rock fired from David's sling, it's roughly equal to the stopping power of a [.45 caliber] handgun - right between the eyes
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Garrison Bespoke sells bulletproof suits, custom tailored to the customer, and can stop up to a .45 ACP caliber pistol.
