![]() The cocking serrations were then cut into these reinforcing bands, only going halfway up the slide. They designed a new short external extractor and they added flared “reinforcing bands” to the lower half the slide, further increasing the weight (and thickness) of the reciprocating mass. More power? Same size? “Yes, please,” said the police departments of America.Īnd the FBI? The people who started this roller-coaster ride through caliber wonderland?īut Sig didn’t stop there. But… it’s still more powerful than 9mm AND short enough to be chambered in 9mm-sized guns. 40 S&W-essentially a shorter, less powerful 10mm. But I’m sure some dick in a pin-striped suit took all the credit. You know, the only people in corporate America who are still un-jaded enough to suggest good, solid, common-sense ideas they truly believe in. I’m guessing it was intern who had that idea. After a year (or so) of this, Smith & Wesson had an epiphany: “If we’re not fully loading the 10mm casing, couldn’t we just make the casing… SHORTER!?” So, the FBI started underloading the 10mm cartridge to about 2/3s of its ballistic potential. But, as they soon learned, the cartridge-and the gun-were just too big. In 1990, the feds formally adopted the big Smith & Wesson model 1076 to chamber the big 10mm cartridge. Something that could turn every nascent FBI agent into a veritable Sonny Crockett. After several agents were shot to pieces by heavily armed criminals in the infamous Miami shootout of 1986, the FBI embarked on a crusade for a new “wonder cartridge.” Something that could deliver revolver-esque power in a semi-auto form factor.
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