>I don't believe in carrying what everyone else is carrying simply
>because that's what they do.

I think it's important to look at trends & data, particularly with
equipment choices that the most serious users and peak performers make.
Those that think about guns and shooting full time tend to have more
well developed opinions than gun writers (who love every gun they
review) and "average" gun owners.

>After more than a decade there are huge numbers of them on the
streets and in homes in the hands of regular Joe's like me.
The Ford Pinto was a big seller too. Sometimes (most of the time)
price is a big factor in gun selection - much more than whether the
gun's design makes it easier to shoot.

Here are some good articles on the relationship between equipment and
performance in real shootings:

http://www.ghostinc.com/category/.1triggerweight/ - article
referencing several law enforcement articles supporting the concept
that long heavy trigger pulls do not help you win gunfights.

http://www.gunsmagazine.com/Features/0608/Ftr0608.html - explains
that LAPD SIS unit has the best gunfight hit ratio. They carry 1911's.

>What I was asking was how has the actually range/street performance of
>the P95 been after more than ten years of production? (more than
>enough time to collect data). I want stories of dead perps shot with
>P95s, I want to know how well it pointed in a real situation.

Tom Givens, who runs Rangemaster in Memphis, TN (also used to teach
at Gunsite under Col. Cooper), had 7 students involved in real
shootings in the past 2 years.
They fired 29 rounds and hit with 28 of them. Hit ratio of 96%.
I attended Tom's presentation on this data earlier this year at a
training conference.
Like me and most every other private sector firearms trainer, Tom
advocates carrying a gun with the same trigger pull for every shot,
preferably a trigger pull under 6 lbs with a short distance of
travel, specifically Glock and 1911 style handguns.

Is this conclusive? No. You cannot separate performance of the
individual from performance of the gun or the caliber or the load
when you study gunfight data.
Training, skill and level of panic all affect the outcome as much or
more than equipment.
Unless you can find data where all other variables except the gun
used are equal, any analysis of gunfight data is basically worthless
for isolating whether one model works better than others.

Even the LAPD vs NYPD comparisons lump in all the variables: type of
training, frequency of training, and equipment across big agencies.

Shooting competition results are more likely to show you whether a
given type of gun outperforms another.

Karl