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Manufactured by Kel-Tec CNC Industries (founded 1991) in the city of Cocoa, Florida, United States, the P32 has a barrel length of 2.68 inches (68 mm). [8]Unlike almost all blowback pocket pistols of the 20th century, P32 operates on Browning's short-recoil principle with a locked breech, [9] allowing to mitigate recoil despite the very low weight (this solution became popular in the following ...
Sphinx Systems Limited was a Swiss-based manufacturer of high quality pistols used mainly by special forces, elite police units and sports shooters.Sphinx was founded in 1976, specializing in tooling and machining, and then diversified into the firearms industry during the 1980s.
In the early 1960s, Elmer Keith, Bill Jordan, and Skeeter Skelton, all noted firearms authorities and authors, lobbied Remington Arms and Smith & Wesson to introduce a new .41 caliber police cartridge with the objective of filling a perceived ballistic performance gap between the .357 and .44 Magnums, thus creating a chambering which they believed would be the ultimate for law enforcement ...
The .32 S&W Long / 7.65x23mmR, [2] often called the .32 Long, is a straight-walled, centerfire, rimmed handgun cartridge, based on the earlier .32 S&W cartridge. It was introduced in 1896 for Smith & Wesson's first-model Hand Ejector revolver. Colt called it the .32 Colt New Police in revolvers it made chambered for the cartridge. [3]
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
.50 BMG cartridge (left) next to a .408 Cheytac cartridge. The .408 Cheyenne Tactical is based on the .400 Taylor Magnum, which itself is based on a modified .505 Gibbs, necked down to 0.408 inches (10.36 mm). The .505 Gibbs is an old English big-game cartridge that was designed to accommodate 39,160 psi (270 MPa) pressure.
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Cartridge: 9×19mm Parabellum [1].357 SIG.40 S&W [2].45 ACP [3] Effective firing range: 55 yd (50 m) [4] Feed system: Detachable box magazine; capacities: 16 rounds (FNP-9) [1] 15 rounds (FNP-9M) 14 rounds (FNP-40) [2] 15 rounds (FNP-45) [3] 15 rounds (FNP-357) 10 rounds (all models, for jurisdictions with magazine capacity restrictions) [1] [2 ...