IN 1964, the .41 Magnum was introduced to the shooting world with predictions that it was destined to be the ultimate police round.
People under the age of 40 laugh because they don’t remember a world where the police and self-defense markets weren’t totally dominated by semi-auto pistols. Older folks who remember seeing duty cops carrying revolvers tend to believe the .41 Magnum might have fulfilled its destiny had there not been a mass migration to semi-autos by police departments across America.
The 41 should have had plenty of time to fullfill its destinty as the police mass migration to semi-autos happened well after 1964. I remember cops still carrying revolvers in the 1970s and even well into the 1980s.