The round is lightweight, comfortable to shoot, lends itself to high-capacity staggered-feed magazines, and exhibits satisfactory terminal performance. Today, the 9mm cartridge dominates law enforcement and military sidearms. Luger developed the 9mm cartridge by necking down the 7.65×21mm Parabellum cartridge and demonstrated this new round to the British Small Arms Committee and the American Springfield Armory the following year. It’s popularly called the 9mm Luger because Georg Luger, the designer of the eponymous semi-automatic pistol, designed the cartridge, introducing it in 1902. The cartridge has several designations-9×19mm, 9mm Parabellum, 9mm Luger, 9mm NATO, and simply 9mm. The 9mm Luger cartridge has been in civilian and military use for more than 115 years. 38 Special is designated 9×29mmR, further adding to the list. Ballistically, the Makarov is equivalent to +P. The bullet is also slightly larger in diameter. Although the casing is only one millimeter shorter than the 9×19mm Luger, the ammunition is not interchangeable. It takes its name from the blowback-operated Makarov PM. 9×18mm MakarovĪdopted by the Soviet Union in 1951, the 9mm Makarov is a semi-automatic pistol and submachine-gun cartridge. 380 is used in compact and subcompact semi-automatic pistols for self-defense. 380 ACP cartridge, introduced in 1908, also known as 9mm Short, 9mm Kurz, and 9mm Corto. This is the metric designation for the popular. Two of the most popular rounds, which are not interchangeable, include: 9×17mm Browning While the 9mm Luger cartridge is often simply called “9mm,” there are a variety of 9mm cartridges on the market today.

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