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  2. 2020–present United States ammunition shortage - Wikipedia

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    The 2020–present United States ammunition shortage is the most recent of all the ammunition shortages in the United States. It arose out of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the 2020 United States presidential election, and the George Floyd protests. The lack of sufficient ammunition for consumers in the United States is to some ...

  3. Unsafe firearm and cartridge combinations - Wikipedia

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    Firing a .357 Magnum round in a .38 Special revolver (the opposite is however is a safe and very common practice) Firing a 9×19 mm round in a .40 S&W pistol; Firing a .300 Blackout round in a .223 Remington rifle; Firing shotgun shell of the correct gauge or bore, but in a chamber length that is too short (for example a 70 mm shell in 65 mm ...

  4. Subsonic ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Subsonic ammunition is ammunition designed to operate at velocities below the speed of sound (Mach 1), which at standard conditions is 340.29 m/s (1,116.4 ft/s). This avoids the supersonic shockwave or "crack" of a supersonic bullet, which, particularly for suppressed firearms, influences the loudness of the shot.

  5. Ukraine is running low on ammo. Europe faces pressure to ...

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    As Ukraine runs low on the ammunition it needs to continue fighting off the Russian invasion and foreign stockpiles grow bare, some of Kyiv’s staunchest backers, including the United States, are ...

  6. CCI Ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Plated bullets were originally sold only for handloading as a cheap substitute for jacketed bullets. [9] [10] CCI sells the MeatEater line of hunting ammunition for small game. CCI partnered with Steven Rinella of MeatEater to produce and market this product line. The MeatEater line of ammunition includes Copper-22, Mini-Mag, and Maxi-Mag ...

  7. Insensitive munition - Wikipedia

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    Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents. The current range of stimuli are shock (from bullets, fragments and shaped charge jets), heat (from fires or adjacent thermal events) and adjacent detonating munitions.

  8. The NRA Reveals Who's to Blame for Ammo Shortage: You - AOL

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  9. 9×19mm Parabellum - Wikipedia

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    Swedish 9mm live ammunition m/39 (left, with black seal) and m/39B (right, with red seal and a slightly more pointed shape) Swedish 9mm live ammunition m/39 and m/39B in their boxes. 9mm Parabellum entered Swedish service as m/39 with the import of the Kulsprutepistol m/39 from Austria, with a bullet weight of 7.5 grams (116 gr). [31]