It is a .45 ACP pistol and so will be more or less on par with other fullsize .45 ACP pistols (1911, for instance).
I don't think the pistol is practical at all, actually. The thing is huge, unecessarily so. The USP Tactical is smaller and 'handier' than the SOCOM model but performs just about as well.
It is just too big to be used for anything except a few very specialized roles where a soldier needs to be armed but for whatever reason has to be armed with a pistol only.
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