harleyman1974
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I enjoy the 1911. Its too big for a daily carry but still a nice gun to have.
This will lead new gun owners to prefer a 9mm since it is cheaper to acquire and the ammo is cheaper, all things being equal.
Ammo is always more expensive than 9mm or .40 due to material cost and maybe economies of scale.
If Magazine capacity restrictions pass, 45 will become king again.
10mm -- maybe. The classic selling point for 9mm these days is "Modern bullet design now makes the 9mm almost as good as .45 ACP." To me that's akin to "Damned by faint praise," since it has been reliably reported that modern bullet design also applies to the .45 ACP. 9mm will always be playing catch-up, trying to be almost as good as .45 ACP.BJung said:The .45 is as dead as the .38. It was an effective firearm for its time and will be around as a result. The demand has fallen because there are shooters chasing around the 9mm bandwagon and 10mm bandwagon.
Nor have I ever noticed any milder recoil from the 9mm. Since both rounds produce about the same amount of energy, physics says they are the same (Newton's 3rd law) but people FEEL it differently in different guns.