[TML] NY Reload

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 3/2/08 10:27 AM, "Tod Glenn" <webmaster at travellercentral.com> wrote:

> The actuality is that the carrying of a second handgun (the backup)
> has little or nothing to do with the speed of reload and everything to
> do with being ready for a weapons malfunction.  The NY reload is
> probably more an invention of fiction unless, as Ronin notes, you have
> a weapon that is impossible to reload in any reasonable amount of time.

My research of the term said it originated in a time when NYC police were
*required* to carry revolves, and disallowed from carrying speed-loaders or
considered them unwieldy.  It mentions both running empty and jamming.  I
can't verify the truth of that.  It doesn't show as a hoax on Snopes, but
then it's doesn't seem like something they'd cover without a specific story.
Short of expert testimony from a number of known NYPD of that time, who can
say for sure?