The 9.65 x 23 Browning is dimensionally the same as the 9,8mm Colt cartridge and was chambered in the M1910 “Grand Browning” and, as can be seen from the photo below, it is similar to the Colt M1911. The first Grand Brownings were indeed chambered in 45...

The experimental Colt Model 1910 pistol was developed by Colt as a possible replacement for the Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer Pistol and the project dates from around 1908 and continued to around 1913. The metric designation in all probability is an indication that it...

The 9mm AE is based on the 41 AE necked down to 9mm and was also developed by Evan Whildin from Action Arms. It was launched as an experimental round in 1988, a year or so after the introduction of the 41 AE, and precedes the 357 SIG by almost six years. It did not...

It is accepted that this was the earliest of the 23mm case length 9mm cartridges and the D.W.M. case register refers to the cartridge simply as “Pistole Kal. 9mm No. 6 Bergmann,” It is possible that development started earlier, and the Bergmann MARS M1903 was in all...

This cartridge has had many designations over time. Discussed on the website is the 9mm Campo Giro, as well as the 9mm Largo, both are different designations for exactly the same cartridge, the latter two being used by Spain, until replaced by the 9mm Parabellum....

The 9mm Browning Long was designed by the famous John M. Browning for FN in Belgium in 1902 and was first adopted in 1903 for the Browning M.1903. it is basically a scaled-up version of the 7.65mm Browning and also retains the semi-rim. It should have been a very...

Much controversy has surrounded the 9mm Campo Giro over the years. The Campo-Giro was a semi-automatic pistol, named after its designer, Colonel Don Venancio López de Ceballos y Aguirre, Count of Campo-Giro. Studies have shown however that, although the pistol design...

There is very little information available on the history of the 9mm M91 Danish Army Revolver. It was in service in the Danish Navy as well as some police units from 1891 – 1941, and still used intermittently during WW2. (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref. 118).    The...

During the mid 1970’s, the idea of a full powered, compact pistol for concealed carry did not exist, one had to carry a small, and invariably inferior caliber handgun. Paris Theodore from the ASP Corporation was the first do modifiy S&W Model 39’s to a compact...

Louis-François Devisme was known for his exceptional quality firearms during the 19th century, which are highly sought after, even today. He received numerous awards over a thirty-year period, from his first award for firearms design and manufacture at the 1834 Paris...

The 9mm FAR (Fast, Accurate, Reliable) was developed by Italian designer Antonio Cudazzo and introduced in December 2000 by Tanfoglio and the FAR system was endorsed by then World Champion IPSC shooter Eric Grauffel. The idea was for a new system in handgun design...

The rationale behind the 9mm Federal never made sense. Federal decided in the 1980’s that sport shooters needed a revolver cartridge that duplicated the ballistics of the standard 9mm Parabellum, much the same as the 45 Auto Rim was for the 45 ACP. After the new...

This was a Belgian experimental dating from 1920-1930. Cartridge had an internal extraction groove. Still trying to find additional info. (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref. 119C).    

This was one of a series of cartridges developed in France for the civilian market around 1890. (Erlmeier, Brandt Ref. 120)                          

Rudolf Frommer was born on the 4th of August 1868 in Budapest and did not enter the arms trade at first, but rather he studied economics and became an investment banker at the Hitel Bank in Budapest. On of the accounts he was responsible for was the firm of Fegyver és...

Introduced a few years after the 9mm Perrin, the 9mm Galand was developed by French gunsmith Charles-François Galand of Liège, Belgium together with Alfred Summerville of the British firm of BRAENDLIN, SOMMERVILLE & Co, BIRMINGHAM and first patented on the 18th of...

On the page featuring the 11.3x36R Gasser, there is a discussion on the history of the revolvers of Leopold and Johann Gasser. To supply the Austro-Hungarian Infantry officers with a lighter weapon than the mammoth 11mm Gasser, they turned to the services of Capt....

The Glisenti Model 1910 was adopted by the Italian Government in 1911 as the “Cartuccia a Pallotolla Cal. 9 M.910.”. The locking system of the Glisenti was weaker than that of the standard 9mm Parabellum cartridge adopted by Germany earlier, and therefore the 9mm...

The 9mm High-Standard was an experimental cartridge developed by the High Standard Manufacturing Corporation of Hamden Conn. The case is a standard 9mm Parabellum case, but it used a sintered iron bullet as can be seen in the middle specimen. Trials were done for the...

With Japan opening to Western influence from the 1860’s onward, the Imperial Army used a wide variety of different firearms sourced and imported from various countries. As handgun they used the .44 Smith & Wesson Russian and the Model 3 revolvers, but in 1877 it...

The 9mm Largo is the Spanish version of the 9mm Bergmann-Bayard cartridge that was adopted by them as a military side-arm in 1905 for use in the M1903 Bergmann-Mars Pistol. It is not a separate cartridge and is listed here only for interest’s sake, as the main...

The 9mm MJR (9mm Major) dates from around 1991 and was designed by Horst Grillmayer, who also developed the 9x25 SAG (Super Auto Grillmayer). It is based on the 40 S&W case necked down. As can be seen from the specimens below, some of the original testing was done...

At the end of WW2 and into the Cold War period, the USSR was looking to replace the TT-33 7.62 Tokarev with a more powerful handgun for its own military as well as their satellite states in Eastern Europe. The cartridge was designed by Boris V. Semin in 1946 and was...

                 The Mars pistol was invented by Hugh Gabbett-Fairfax, who was an engineer and small arms designer. The design was an unusual one with a long-recoil system whereby the barrel and bolt moved together...

The 9 x 25mm cartridge was introduced by Mauser as a longer 9mm cartridge and because it was developed to be used mostly in South America, the Orient and Africa, it was known as the “Export Mauser”. Smith 1958:182 puts the date of development as 1908, but according to...