Originally Posted by CDW4ME
40 S&W become more popular if a ineffective nationwide AWB with arbitrary 10 round mag limit and no grandfathering ever gets passed.
Limited to 10 rounds or less, many people might prefer bigger bullets.
precisely why .40 S&W became so popular in the first place
It's a great caliber, but since the AWB sunsetted, it opened up big mags again...
so until the Libs get back in control, Enjoy!!
When they get a hi-cap mag ban passed, .40 will get REALLY popular again.
So chill, relax, and hang on to your party favors...they'll be big again.
Meanwhile, some of the smart folks are scarfing up .40's while dumb folks are selling low!!
Nope, not at all ...
Actually, back in the '90s, the rapid increase in the number of states enacting CCW laws - in combination with the Clinton AWB/10-rd mag limit - actually accelerated popular demand for concealable 10-rd .45acp and 10mm pistols. The most notables of those were, respectively, the G30 (9+1) and the G29 (10+1).
The .40S&W's popularity back then had little or nothing to do with the federal AWB/10-rd mag limit; rather it had much more to do with the FBI's formal adoption of the cartridge, following which, like the proverbial domino-effect or panicky lemmings , a huge number of state, county, and local PDs & LEAs rushed to adopt the 40 too.
A somewhat more secondary reason was the perception of the .40S&W as the perfect 'compromise' cartridge: the initial 180gn JHP load offered you low-end 10mm 'stopping-power' in a more easily carried 9mm-size gun.