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    Quote Originally Posted by HKGuns View Post
    Never bothered with the 40 either, much like kirkland, I own too many calibers already. Never saw the point of messing with 40 when 9 and 45 out of auto's works just dandy.
    That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.
    I thought the FBI went to the G22/23 40 S&W in 1997/98ish?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NYH1 View Post
    I thought the FBI went to the G22/23 40 S&W in 1997/98ish?

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    They picked up the MP5/40 earlier than that but I was still off by a few years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    They picked up the MP5/40 earlier than that but I was still off by a few years.
    Do it MKE! I dare ya!

    I have a good Turk AP5P. I bet I'd like it even more in .40 with LRBH, if good mags are available.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
    That's where I'm at. The only exotic I've got is a USP compact in .357 SIG because I bought it for my dad, because that is the one he wanted and when he passed I got it back. Funniest thing about .40 S&W is ballistically very similar to .41 action express which got introduced all the way back in 1986 but nobody understood wtf it was so it got ignored but then the FBI went 10mm in 1989 but guns were too big for the average user so they downsized to .40 S&W in 1990. But the .41 AE would have been the easy button and was probably the better performer.
    Yea .41 AE needed better advertising.

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