LAST EDITED ON Mar-27-02 AT 01:37 PM (EST)
 
>It's my understanding that they're about the same. Keep in mind that
>Bowen's PPK is the proper European model - it's in 7.65mm Browning
>(aka .32 ACP), as opposed to the entirely unsatisfactory mutant .380
>APC "PPK/S" that US import laws have stuck us North Americans with
>since the late 1960s.

well....that answers my question, at least I know where to go if I have any more gun questions(I'm not being sarcastick, BTW).

>Anyway, stopping power arguments between firearms in the same basic
>niche (well, the Mak is actually more closely comparable to the PPK's
>bigger brother, the PP, but still) are largely pointless. The whole
>concept of "stopping power" is too nebulous to make any comparisons
>other than large, sweeping ones (like ".45 ACP is better than .22 Long
>Rifle").

or a .50 DE and a .70 LE

also, do you have to be, like, 18 to go fire in a gun range?