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Never mind that we had physics, sci- ence and logic on our side; they had the inter- net and it was never a fair fight. This is a battle that has been fought before and probably will be again. For example, after the grue- some failures during the Moro Rebellion in the Philippines graphically illustrated the folly of using a smaller cartridge, the Army paid attention.

That lead to the Thompson-LaGarde Tests, which proved what most of our salted Soldiers already knew: the Army made a mistake abandoning the .45 Colt in favor of the .38 Long Colt, a cartridge equivalent in power to the .380 ACP. With that newfangled smokeless powder having been recently invented, ammunition makers were able to more or less duplicate the proven perfor- mance of the old .45 Colt in the newer, shorter .45 ACP. They put the cartridge in a semi-automatic handgun, the M1911, which went on to make its bones winning two world wars and in countless lesser conflicts.

Yeah, I know. “OK, boomer.” Because of decisions made by folks with little knowledge of terminal ballistics, we collectively lost our way again and things began to backslide. Then, in April of 1986, FBI special agents got into it with a couple of bad guys down in Miami, and the cartridge battle had to be fought again. In the aftermath, it was decided that the 9 mm was a mistake.

The crooked path that resulted led through the 10 mm and on to the rise of the Today the .40 S&W is gasping for life while the 10 mm is seeing a bit of a resurgence. Oddly enough, though, it’s not for its original intent. It seems that there is a large faction, again ignor- ing physics and science, choosing the 10 mm for theoretical protection against 1,000-pound Ursa demons. They tend to ignore the high failure rate when it’s actually used.

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