It’s worth remembering with firearms that “horses for courses” is phrase most applicable, a .38 pistol round will kill you just as certainly as a rifle at short range, which is what the weapon was designed to do; in close quarter fighting I’d rather a pistol than a rifle.

If two soldiers carrying rifles approached you and you were concealed with the element of suprise then the odds would be in your favour; you can loose off six shots with a Webley in the time it takes aim and fire a rifle twice and they don’t jam! (like an auto)