![]() The Archduke and his wife were riding in an open-top car, along a publicized route. The Serbs were tired of the way that the A-H powers-that-be were treating them and decided to do something drastic about it. This little fellow isn’t the most powerful round on the block, but it was enough to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on Jin Sarajevo. ![]() 380 is the only pistol cartridge to my knowledge that started a world war. I can’t see it being replaced by LEO agencies or civilians anytime soon.380 ACP (9mm Kurtz) History I know, it’s pretty cheap to buy, but I’m cheaper… Even with my love of revolvers and their calibers, I’ve probably reloaded more 9mm than any other caliber. They have since gone to the M17/M18 Sig Sauer – a version of the 320 – but it’s still a 9mm. 45ACP 1911 was replaced, by our military, with the 9mm Beretta M9. It hit another of several high points in 1985 when the venerable. Getting away from the 9mm for a while after the “Miami Shootout” in 1986, the F.B.I. adopted it, along with the S&W 459, in the early 1980s. They arranged for troopers to carry that round housed in the new S&W 39 pistol. The very first state police agency to adopt the 9mm was our neighboring state of Illinois, in 1968. As bullet technology improved, so did the adoption rates of the 9mm. I daresay that if you, dear reader, are like me and have gotten onto a few email lists from companies that sell ammo, you get more notices about 9mm ammo buys than any other caliber… I know I do.Īfter WWI, other countries hopped on the 9mm bandwagon. It has grown to be one of the best-selling calibers out there. The 9mm caught on and fought from the time of WWI onwards. Imagine that… those 1911s in all those holsters might’ve been Lugers! Well… maybe not, but it’s an intriguing thought. in 1903 after he heard that we were looking for a new military semi-auto. He presented it to the British Small Arms Committee in 1902 and sent some Luger pistols to the U.S. Georg Lugar designed the 9mm Parabellum/9x19/9mm Luger in 1901 for his brand-new Luger pistol. Well, they looked that old… Anyway, parabellum comes from the Latin motto of the Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) company, the outfit that Georg Luger worked for: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war). ![]() I took Latin in high school and had teachers who most certainly had taught Julius Caesar himself. Why? Where did it come from? What does “parabellum” mean? OK - that first. Not only do citizens carry it by the hundreds, but most law enforcement agencies arm their agents with it as well (including the F.B.I. Nowadays, the 9mm is the king of the concealed-carry world. It is one of the all-time greats, but it didn’t impress many of us over on this of the pond until fairly recently when updated technology allowed companies to produce JHP or other defensive ammo that bumped its effectiveness into the same neighborhood that the. I’ve written so much about the 9mm that I can almost quote its history without reference to other resources. Image: authorīefore we jump to more comparisons, let’s take a quick look at each cartridge’s history. How can that be, if one is ahead of the other in the power/velocity curve? Let’s explore. Given those parameters, both of these should be pretty equal in power, right? Not so fast, Herkimer! They are not the same in either velocity or energy. 355” diameter bullet, and their case lengths are within 2 millimeters of each other… 17mm (.380) vs. We have two very popular self-defense semi-automatic calibers that we’re going to examine today.
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