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You do realize that "bears" were always a euphemism for 300 lb cracked-out giga-niggas, don't you? The proliferation of automobiles in the gangster era, along with recreational drugs among blacks, were primarily what drove 1920's US law enforcement to solicit more powerful handgun cartridges to replace those that were still hanging around from the black powder days. This started with 38 special replacing 38 long colt, and every new wave of street drugs and black race riots reignited the arms race between cops and criminals. This culminated with police departments abandoning revolvers en masse, and switching to comparatively high-capacity 40 S&W autoloaders after the Rodney King riots in 1992. 45 never had widespread adoption, since it was not politically correct to outfit cops with military weapons and gear prior to the North Hollywood shootout and 9/11 when police departments started to acquire lots of GWOT overruns and hand-me-downs.
