In all fairness, the 10mm doesn’t really fit in a compact package and there are a good selection of snub-nose. It was a surprise to see revolver calibers come in more popular than semi-automatics for off-duty. 380ACP was next on the list scoring 5.16% from our respondents.Īfter that, the. 45ACP was the third most popular off-duty round at 9.61%. 40S&W was the second most popular off-duty round at 14.06%. 45ACP or some other caliber on duty are selecting to carry 9mm off-duty. That indicates that some folks who are carrying. That was the only addition / adjustment to our options.ĩmm still came in the highest at 65.48%. Moving to the off-duty section, we asked the same questions: caliber and manufacturer / type. Federal Premium Personal Defense HST – 14.18%ĭoing the extrapolation of data, that makes-among our respondents-the 9mm SPEER Gold Dot / Gold Dot 2 the most widely used duty ammunition.357Mag, 10mm and other calibers.Īs to the manufacturer and type of ammunition, we gave the respondents a choice of all of the following, shown in order of popularity (they were listed alphabetically in the survey): The remaining 2.7% was divided up between.In order of popularity the most common duty calibers are: 44Mag and an “other” option that was barely used. The caliber choices for duty weapon included 9mm. Altogether, those three groups represent roughly 88% of all answers given for the survey. The third largest group of respondents were the combined state law enforcement officials that weighed in (124 out of 561, or 22%). is provided by sheriffs and almost all of them are county elected officials (with a very few “independent cities,” the expectation was for a larger response from county law enforcement personnel. Given that roughly half of our law enforcement in the U.S. The second largest group (139 out of 561, or 24.8%) work for counties. That should be no surprise as the largest community of police officers work for cities and towns. The largest percentage of respondents (228 out of 561, or 40.6%) were employed by a municipality. The only identifying information we asked of the respondents was the type of agency they worked for. Our primary goal was to gather information on the current popularity of common ammunition for on and off duty: caliber, manufacturer, and model (if applicable). During the months of March and April 2020, Officer Media Group conducted a survey to determine what the most popular on and off-duty ammunition types were.
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