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Originally Posted by murphydog
It’s an interesting question. Does anyone have a documented non law enforcement self-defense incident in which a reload was needed? Not doubting it has happened or carrying a reload is a good idea, just asking the question.
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There have been, but generally very rare. The story of the jewelry dealer in L.A. who was involved in multiple gunfights and had to use multiple guns in each one, IIRC, comes to mind. I think his name was Lance Thomas. Ayoob has written about him. It should be noted that Thomas was working in a relatively high-risk occupation/location, so that may be a factor in determining how prevalent reloads are in self defense shootings in general.
However, Claude Werner has done a couple of analyses, one involving nearly 500 non-LE self defense shootings, and none of them involved a reload.
Ayoob has also said that reloads are rare, and when they did happen they almost never affected the outcome, though I can't remember if he was talking about all defensive shootings, including LE, or just non-LE.