Gun Digest Book of Beretta Pistols: Function, Accuracy, Performance

by Massad Ayoob

Stacy Lim is a member of the LAPD. She was off duty and carrying her department-issue 92F when she experienced a carjacking by gang-bangers. When she identified herself, the point man of the bad guys shot her through the chest with a .357 Magnum. The bullet tore her spleen apart, pierced her heart, and punched a massive exit wound in her back. Her 92F had already been off safe, carried that way per department edict, and she brought it up and shot him a couple of times, chased him when he ran, and shot him twice more. All four of the 115-grain Remington hollowpoints she unleashed found vital flesh. He died. Stacy survived. She is, to my knowledge, the world’s only known survivor of a .357 Magnum gunshot wound to the heart. Eight months later she returned to full patrol duty.