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Why no love for the 40S&W?
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<blockquote data-quote="dfanonymous" data-source="post: 1874858" data-attributes="member: 97050"><p>The 40 has been being phased out for awhile now. It just took the pandemic for people to realize it as it's the only thing I ever see on the shelves anymore.</p><p></p><p>There's a few reasons. On paper, the 9mm today vs back in the 70/80/90s perform better then they did then. The turning point and the FBIs pet project to make the 40 sw was a direct result from the dade county shootout in 1986.</p><p></p><p>Moving ahead to today, there is better numbers on paper for 9mm, generic data related to physiology and a lot of police data/CCW data to justify 9's being viable again. Tactically the direction is now reducing margin of error in recoil management for fast follow up shots, and capacity combined obviously with technique and shot placement.</p><p></p><p>To be frank, the 40 in my opinion doesn't offer anything more than the 9mm or .45 acp does. It still just sits there in the middle of American favorites and like all handgun cartridges, they utterly all have the potential to suck from .380 to .45 acp equally in terms of lethality compared to a rifle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dfanonymous, post: 1874858, member: 97050"] The 40 has been being phased out for awhile now. It just took the pandemic for people to realize it as it’s the only thing I ever see on the shelves anymore. There’s a few reasons. On paper, the 9mm today vs back in the 70/80/90s perform better then they did then. The turning point and the FBIs pet project to make the 40 sw was a direct result from the dade county shootout in 1986. Moving ahead to today, there is better numbers on paper for 9mm, generic data related to physiology and a lot of police data/CCW data to justify 9’s being viable again. Tactically the direction is now reducing margin of error in recoil management for fast follow up shots, and capacity combined obviously with technique and shot placement. To be frank, the 40 in my opinion doesn’t offer anything more than the 9mm or .45 acp does. It still just sits there in the middle of American favorites and like all handgun cartridges, they utterly all have the potential to suck from .380 to .45 acp equally in terms of lethality compared to a rifle. [/QUOTE]
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