Saturday at a gun shop, my eye was caught by the archaic stocks of a couple of Ruger “Vaquero” revolvers (modern versions of obsolete guns, made for rodeo sports). Looking closer, I saw that their calibers were .45 and .32. That puts me in my place.
2004 Sep 04: Oops! This post formerly linked to one (from 2002 Oct 05) that has now vanished. It said:
Rex Stout, author of the ‘Nero Wolfe’ mysteries, made a point never to use real-life brand names. But in “Death of a Demon” (1961) he went one step further: the murder weapon is a .32 revolver, and I at least have never (otherwise) heard of such a thing.