Ruger opted to bring back the round-butt grip frame for the .45 ACP/.45 Colt version, which is an excellent choice. The wooden panels are checkered along the sides for improved purchase but smooth ...

45 Colt guns and ammo out of mothballs. Browning had been working with Colt to develop a .41 caliber cartridge. In 1905, after tests and studies, the military came calling for a round equivalent to ...

45 ACP is in wide abundance and there are a large variety of different pistols chambered for the round as well. Owning a .45 pistol will also be highly practical because the .45 ACP itself is a ...

The Luger, Walther P38, or VIS P35 9mm pistols, had 8-round magazines. The 1911 also had an 8-round mag, but loaded with the more powerful .45 ACP, it had the advantage. We now recognize magazine ...

The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol round, or .45 ACP as it is commonly known, is fairly controversial. Invented in 1905 by prolific firearms designer John Moses Browning, the .45 ACP was the standard ...

He noted the .45-caliber ACP cartridge's size, weight and ballistics make it a popular self-defense round in the U.S. In 2012, pistols chambered in .45-caliber ACP were included in the second most ...

Glock’s.45 GAP round was designed to provide .45 ACP performance in a shorter cartridge that would fit into a standard size Glock grip frames. However, the compact G38 and sub-compact G39 ...

45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol ... as many of us are well aware. Set off a round of GI hardball in a pistol weighing less than ...

45 ACP and features a Radial Delayed Blowback operating ... For example, the 450 SMC 185 grain Bonded Defense jacketed hollow point round will produce a muzzle velocity of 1,725 feet per second ...

45 caliber as far superior to 9mm ... t mean they make a better choice for a military pistol caliber than the 9mm round – especially when you consider that the majority of the military ...

(An easy way to start a fist fight is to ask pistol aficionados if the .45 caliber round has more “stopping power” than 9mm ammo.) But eagle-eyed Ian D’Costa of Military Times first reported ...

For Marine special operators, the never-ending debate over whether the 9mm or .45-caliber round is the more powerful bullet has been settled. Previously, the classic .45-caliber Colt 1911 was one ...