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- From: cbl@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Chris Luchini)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: 10 mm autopistols
- Message-ID: <C08ovM.Itp@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:44:18 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: High Energy Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1i308gINN75d@mirror.digex.com>, curt@access.digex.com (curt williams) writes:
- #I keep hearing vaguely worded criticisms of the 10mm cartridge, but I
- #can never get any specifics. I understand that the FBI dumped the
- #10 after having problems. Were these problems:
- #
- # 1) feed problems (possibly caused by FBI-required modifications
-
-
- I've never heard this one. . .
-
-
- # 2) overpressure problems causing damage to the pistols
-
- I've only heard this one for 1) The first Colt Delta
- Eliets _with_ 2) 1'st generation Norma ammunition (it was
- _hot_)
-
- # 3) control problems caused by recoil and/or blast
-
-
- Yeah, every gun that fires a more powerfull cartridge
- than the previous one has this problem. I've heard the
- 'excessive recoil and blast' complaint said about 9mm's
- from cops who were used to 38sp's. It's a user problem,
- not a gun problem.
-
-
- The reason the FBI dumped the 10mm for a while was that
- they wanted a very-non standard trigger on their SW guns.
- SW had a very hard time engineering the new trigger and
- a substantial fraction of the triggers broke.
-
- Supposidly the problem is fixed, and the FBI is/will be
- issuing the 10mm's again.
-
- #????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- #
- #Does anyone know the real story?
- *1110 W. Green/Urbana IL 61801/217-333-0505/cbl@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu
-