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  2. List of military headstamps - Wikipedia

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    It loaded cartridges made at the Evansville-Chrysler plant across town and then packed them in shipping crates for shipment. In November, 1943 it was the first plant to package ammo in vacuum-packed metal cans. In the Spring and Summer of 1944 it was employed in inspecting and repacking .45 ACP and .30 Carbine ammunition.

  3. .45 ACP - Wikipedia

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    The .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol), also known as .45 Auto, .45 Automatic, or 11.43×23mm [1] is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol.

  4. Firearms in Miami Vice - Wikipedia

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    The pistol used in the show was chambered in .45 ACP, as 10mm Auto blanks were simply not available. After the Dornaus & Dixon company went out of business in 1986, the product placement contract went to Smith & Wesson. [1] [5] [6] Starting with the third season, Sonny used a 2nd Generation series Smith & Wesson Model 645. [1]

  5. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    .45 ACP: The standard US pistol round for about 75 years. Typical .45 ACP loads are subsonic. [54].45 Colt: a more powerful 45-calibre revolver round using a longer cartridge. The .45 Colt was designed for the Colt Single Action Army and adopted by the US Army in 1873. Other 45-calibre single-action and double-action revolvers also use this round.

  6. Polymer80 - Wikipedia

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    [38] [37] [39] On May 21, 2021, the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 286 to prohibit the sale of privately made firearms and the receiver blanks used to make them. [40] [41] The Los Angeles Police Department reported that nearly 90 percent of privately made firearms recovered by the department in 2021 were from Polymer80. [42]

  7. Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant - Wikipedia

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    Fifty round package of .45 ball ammunition from 1948 The Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant was a United States Army ammunition plant located in Ramsey County, Minnesota in the current boundaries of the suburbs of Arden Hills and New Brighton , bounded by County Road I to the north, I-35W to the west, U.S. Route 10 to the southwest, County ...

  8. M1917 Revolver - Wikipedia

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    For these reasons, in 1920, the Peters ammunition company introduced the .45 Auto Rim. This rimmed version of the .45 ACP allowed both versions of the Model 1917 revolver to fire reliably without the clips. In the late 1950s and 1960s, Colt and Smith & Wesson 1917s were available through mail order companies at bargain prices. [11]

  9. Arsenal Firearms AF2011A1 - Wikipedia

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    The Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 is a double-barreled, semi-automatic pistol of Italian origin. The weapon is a derivative of the M1911 pistol and the majority of internal parts including the firing pins, firing pin plates, sear groups, springs, recoil rods, and mainspring housings are interchangeable with standard M1911 replacement parts. [4]