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Actually I'm glad for the existence of .40 S&W for a variety of reasons. Like it or not, the 9mm cartridge is satisfactory to most people (self included), but with very few exceptions, anything you can build in 9x19 you can change a couple parts and build it in .40 S&W. This creates a lot of affordable, quality pistols in a dirt common service caliber more effective than 9x19.
Honestly, with modern ballistics, we don't really need the bigger bore so badly any more. If this was 1972 and all there was, was a choice between a .357 Magnum revolver and a .45 ACP 1911A1, I can see why a lot of people would develop an allegiance to the .45 ACP cartridge.
But this is 2005 and we have other rounds that'll do the same thing because we have greater technology now. And I know this is nobody on this forum because you guys know better, but most 1911A1 lovers that don't have such passion as to go on the internet and rave about their gun use military ball ammo. I'll take 9x19 hollowpoints with modern bullet designs any day over that.
I do agree that it does seem bass ackwards the way it developed and it would never have gone anywhere if not for "politics" for lack of a better word.
But eventually by hook or crook something like the .357 SIG or the .40 S&W just had to come along and start edging in on .45 ACP. It just had to. I admit I was nervous about .40 S&W at first, but when I started to really look at it, when you take the emotion out of it, the only thing I like better about .45 ACP is that it's in a bigger casing.
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