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- From: aeporro@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Bob Porro)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: 45 ACP, 9mm
- Message-ID: <18NOV199207584938@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:10:35 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1eavbrINNf9n@roche.csl.sri.com>, dstine@cisco.com (David Stine) writes...
- #In article <m5mauB1w164w@upchrch.UUCP> upchrch!joel@peora.sdc.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch ) writes:
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- ##While I have reservations about the 10mm as a pistol ammo, I suspect
- ##that it might find a place as carbine and submachine gun ammo. It
- ##should achieve quite respectable energies when fired out of a carbine
- ##barrel. I wouldn't be surprised, based on the results I've read with
- ##.357 Magnum fired out of a carbine, if the energies for the 155 grain
- ##bullet weren't up in the 30-30 range. There would be obvious advantages
- ##to getting assault rifle like performance out of a submachine gun.
- ##
- #
- #ya, know, this sets me to thinking: the 10 would seem (at first blush) to be
- #about the right size for a gas-operated semi carbine, say something like an
- #updated M1 Carbine. A full-house 10 or (ha!) a +P 10 tends to eat handguns up,
- #but where you could devote some more beef to the receiver and a gas machanism,
- #I would think that it might be a decent round for a brush-busting deer
- #carbine.
- #
- #any other thoughts? am I up too late?
- #
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- I read that H & K is producing a 10 mm Auto Carbine based on their MP5 design.
- I doubt if any semi-auto versions will be imported to the U.S. for the general
- public due to the ban on importation of the military look-a-like semi autos.
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