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Not bad for a plane that was considered obsolescent when WWII started and that went on perform the following roles and did it well: night interdiction, bomber, air-sea rescue, long range patrol, anti-submarine patrols, insertion and pickup of agents & military personnel, cargo runs, evacuation of injured, high priority delivery of mail and probably some others I forgot. It was a docile, easy airplane to fly and generally well liked by it's crews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina And a company is planning on building new ones: https://catalinaaircrafttrust.com/ngaa-home

The ones that run seem to be chambered in .38 Special, 38-40 and 44-40. and I can probably count on one hand the number of people who could run them fast.

Probably not, but real bullet proof barriers are heavy and hard to move around on the range. I've done some of those types of matches and 99% of us recognize that whatever we are hiding behind wouldn't stop a bullet in the real world, but serves as a placeholder/symbol/example of something that might be cover in the real world.

Why do you make that sound like a bad thing?

Even after both atomic bombs there were elements in the Japanese military that would have rather died as a people then surrender. See the ends of the books: John Toland's 2 volume work 'The Rising Sun' which tells the Japanese side of the war and is based heavily on interviews with important surviving Japanese officers and politicians. It got him the 1971 Pulitzer Prize. Toland's wife was first generation Japanese-American and did the translating. Admiral Matome Ugaki 'Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki 1941-1945' a senior Japanese Admiral who was Yamamoto's chief of staff and wasin the other Betty bomber when Yamamoto was shot down. He also command the Battleship Division 1 (Yamato, Musashi and Nagato during the Battle of Leyte Gulf and commanded the 5th Air Fleet until the surrender. Disagreeing with the surrender, he flew in a Japanese dive bomber on an attempted suicide mission when he was probably shot down by US Navy anti-aircraft fire.

All pre-dreadnoughts, they were obsolete before WWI even started.

None, or at least none that spring to mind. Bah Humbug

The right side lock internals from one of my British shotguns

Roger Williams Park Zoo, Providence, RI

The USS Constitution during her dry dock refit in 2017

Powder handling room from one of the 16" turrets onboard the USS Massachusetts

From the NY Post and the video they of the shooter firing the gun is consistent with a bolt action mechanism.

The bass part @2:15 by Paul McCartney is great. Pretty good album.

The pistol used is allegedly a B&T VP9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brügger_%26_Thomet_VP9 and is made in Switzerland and imported into the USA It's supposed to be a copy of the WWII British Welrod and it's a magazine fed bolt action handgun. The NY Post video clip of the shooter working the action appears consistent with a bolt action handgun. An odd weapon, that should be easily traceable, since it is considered a Class III weapon. How did the killer know the CEO was going to be in NYC? How did the killer know the CEO was going to go to that hotel that morning? Very odd crime, parts of it seemed well planned, like the bicycle into Central Park and the shooter disappearing from there or the fake id. Other parts are very sloppy, such as leaving fingerprints (probably on the shell casings), possible DNA and allowing his face to be seen.