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The .380 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) (also referred to as the "9mm Short", "9mm Browning", "9 mm Kurz", "9mm Corto", "9x17mm") pistol cartridge is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular self-defense cartridge ever since. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1424x1068, 310 KB) Yugoslavian . ...
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Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...
An example of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointy (spitzer) for the rifle and round for the pistol. ...
ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) is the acronym chosen by Colt to denote its involvement in the design of several pistol cartridges. ...
A Browning 9 millimeter Hi-Power Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century, using a Percussion cap mechanism Derringers were small and easily hidden. ...
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A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ...
John Moses Browning (January 21, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed myriad varieties of weapons, cartridges, and gun mechanics, many of which are used in the U.S. military and elsewhere to this day. ...
Design The .380 ACP cartridge was designed for early blowback pistols which lacked a barrel locking mechanism. The locking mechanism that is found on most other pistols is not necessary for the .380 because of the round's low breech pressure when fired; the guide spring is enough to buffer the energy displaced to the slide. This simplifies manufacture of pistols chambered for such a round, generally thereby lowering the cost. There have, however, been a number of locked breech pistols chambered in .380 ACP. There have also been some diminutive sub-machine guns, such as the Ingram MAC-11. Blowback is a system in which automatic or semi-automatic firearms operate through the energy created by combustion in the chamber and bore acting directly on the bolt face through the cartridge. ...
The barrel of a firearm is the tube, usually metal, through which a controlled explosion is released in order to propel a projectile out of the end at great speed. ...
The Ingram MAC-11 (M11A1) was originaly made by Gordon Ingram at the Military Armament Corp. ...
The cartridge is ballistically similar to the slightly hotter 9x18mm (9mm Makarov) pistol cartridge developed by the Soviets. Ballistics (gr. ...
9 x 18 mm PM is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. ...
Performance The .380 ACP is compact and light, but short ranged and having marginal stopping power. Even so, it remains a popular self defense cartridge for shooters who want a light weight pistol with manageable recoil. It is slightly less powerful than a standard-pressure .38 Special and uses 9mm (.355") bullets. The heaviest bullet that can be safely loaded into the .380 is 115 grains, though the standard has long been 85, 90 or 95 grains. Many consider the .380 ACP to be the minimum cartridge suitable for self defense, while others draw the line at the slightly more powerful .38 Special or at the less powerful .32 ACP. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Self defense refers to actions taken by a person to defend onself, ones property or ones home. ...
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The .380 has had somewhat of a recent upsurge in popularity due to some very compact and lightweight pistols chambered for it, namely the Kel-Tec P3AT. Kel Tec P-3AT pistol. ...
Ballistic Data A 6.2 g (96 gr) bullet leaves a 10cm (4-inch) barrel at about 290 m/s (950 ft/s) for a muzzle energy of about 192 foot-pounds (260 joules) of energy.
Notes - The .380 ACP should not be confused with the semi-rimmed .38 ACP cartridge which was later developed into the potent .38 Super.
- Firearms using the round are often marketed specifically to women, with the lighter recoil often mentioned in market material. [1] [2] [3]
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Synonyms - 9 x 17 mm
- 9 mm Kurz
- 9 mm Corto
- 9 mm Court
- 9 mm Short
- 9 mm Kratak
- 9 mm Browning Short
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Located below is an extended list of small arms, ranging from pistols to machine guns and even to large handheld devices such as grenade launchers and anti-tank rifles. ...
Common handgun cartridges. ...
From left to right: .50 BMG, 300 Win Mag, .308 Winchester, 7. ...
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