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The Smith & Wesson M&P (Military and Police) is a polymer - framed, short recoil operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistol introduced in the summer of 2005 by the American company Smith & Wesson. It uses a Browning-type locking system. While targeted at law enforcement agencies, [2] the M&P is also widely available on the commercial market.
Minebea PM-9. The Minebea PM-9 Submachine Gun, known officially in the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) as the 9mm Machine Pistol (9mm機関拳銃, Kyumiri Kikan Kenjū) [2] or as the M9, [5] is a Japanese-made submachine gun and machine pistol. Analogous to the Israeli IMI Mini-Uzi, it has the same telescoping bolt as the Mini-Uzi, but differs ...
Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved 2008-10-17. </ref> SAAMI [1] The 9×23mm Winchester is a pistol cartridge developed as a joint venture by Winchester Ammunition and Colt's Manufacturing Company. [2] The 9×23mm Winchester has a convoluted development history, but was commercially introduced by Winchester in 1996.
1,495 ft/s (456 m/s) 730 ft⋅lbf (990 J) Test barrel length: 6 in (Lone Wolf SS 1:16 in twist) Source (s): [1] The 9×25mm Dillon is a pistol wildcat cartridge developed for use in USPSA / IPSC Open guns. The cartridge is made by necking down a 10mm Auto case to 9 mm .
Overpressure ammunition. Overpressure ammunition, commonly designated as +P or +P+ (pronounced Plus-P or Plus-P-Plus ), is small arms ammunition that has been loaded to produce a higher internal pressure when fired than is standard for ammunition of its caliber (see internal ballistics ), but less than the pressures generated by a proof round.
Owing to the poor reception of the 9mm NATO cartridge in combat zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, the program was an open-caliber competition to evaluate larger rounds like the .40 S&W and .45 ACP or more powerful rounds like the .357 SIG or FN 5.7×28mm. Although the objective was for a round with better terminal ballistics, the argument for ...
Steve Hornady. Number of employees. 200+ (April 2009) Website. www .hornady .com. Footnotes / references. Largest independent producer of bullets in the world. Hornady Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of ammunition cartridges, components and handloading equipments, based in Grand Island, Nebraska .
8-round single column, detachable box magazine. The Smith & Wesson Model 39 is a semiautomatic pistol developed for the United States Army service pistol trials of 1954. [1] After the Army abandoned its search for a new pistol, the Model 39 went on the civilian market in 1955 and was the first of Smith & Wesson 's first generation semi ...