Sunday, July 11, 2010   I’ve had a PDW (NATO personal defense
weapon) rolling around in my head, but Frank James just did one
recently that does a much better job than I ever could. (And I
THINK this is the bullet type he prefers for a possible PDW.
Partly because it can be converted back to regular 9mm NATO
chambering sorta easily. Oooo, and that leads to THIS article...
It's like a Rabbit Hole, this subject.)  Have you noticed
something? We don’t have a PDW weapon issued to the troops…
Remember your history. This spec for a PDW came out in the mid
80s. The things that gun fanbois were thinking of that trickled
down to my young skull full of mush was Uzi’s (the war in Beirut
was fresh in folks’ minds) and the supposedly ‘faster’ MAC10s
(Miami Vice). Small subbies were the shizzle. In the lizard
brains of the folks calling for a new PDW, I imagine, was a tiny
voice saying, “Like the Uzi, but COOLER! And more effective,
naturally.”  It’s a tough nut to crack. Simpler and handier than
the issue rifle, but more