![]() ![]() ![]() Granted, when restricted to using military-grade, Geneva Convention-approved ball ammo, the bigger bullet did provide a significant stopping-power advantage. Granted, Cooper and Taylor could base their beliefs on tons of combat experience. 45 ACP cartridge and their derision of the 9mm. They were quite influential in their advocacy for the. Jeff Cooper, and one of his apt pupils, Chuck Taylor – a former Special Forces officer in Vietnam – of the American Small Arms Academy. This in turn was pushed heavily by none other than “The Father of Modern Handgunning” himself, the late great Lt. Louis LaGarde shot steer and human cadavers in order to assess bullet effectiveness. John Thompson – the eventual inventor of the Tommy Gun – and Maj. Hatcher based his conclusions on the Thompson-LaGarde tests of 1904, wherein then-Capt. It was also the most powerful handgun ever adopted for issue to general military personnel, serving faithfully in that role for 75 years before the M9 took its place. ![]() Armed Forces’ first-ever semiautomatic pistol. The venerable and ubiquitous pistol passed a 6,000-round torture test in order to become the U.S. 50 caliber machine gun, and the aforementioned Hi-Power. This was one of Browning’s three most enduring inventions, along with the M2 “Ma Deuce”. This one first appeared in 1905, but the caliber truly became established in 1911 thanks to arguably the greatest gunmaker of all time, John Moses Browning, and his M1911 single-action semiauto pistol. The array of different makes and models in this caliber is simply dizzying. The 9mm had planted a firm foothold in the American firearms market. But in the 1980s, American police started transitioning en masse from revolvers to semiautomatic pistols, and the U.S. For several decades it was more popular in Europe than in the United States. Other pistols in the caliber soon followed, including the Browning Hi-Power, Swedish Lahti, and Walther P-38 – eventually the 9mm became the most widely issued military and police handgun cartridge in the world. The Luger was arguably the world’s first truly successful autoloading military handgun, and it was certainly battle-tested at the hands of Kaiser Wilhelm’s troops in the First World War. It came to us in 1902 by way of Georg Luger and his P08 Parabellum pistol, itself better known as the Luger in honor of its inventor and easily one of the most recognizable handguns ever made. The 9x19mm Parabellum is the older of the two cartridges. (“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.”) The time has come, then, for me to share my thoughts on the matter. Yet just like a train wreck, you can’t help but look. Gun experts on both sides of the argument find it repetitious and tiresome. This gun writer is going to take a break from writing about Glocks and jump into the neverending. ![]()
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