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The .40 Smith & Wesson: this round came along at the right time in the right place.(AMMO)
New cartridges are the lifeblood of gunwriters like me. After awhile we run out of things to talk about otherwise. Of course it is really hard to say that anything is truly new in a technology that has been mature for a century or so, but when Smith & Wesson and Winchester teamed up to introduce the .40 S&W in 1990 their timing could not have been more opportune. And I was luckily involved almost from the outset.
The groundwork was really laid by the FBI's investigation of the 10mm Auto as a replacement for their issue handguns and the subsequent development of the S&W Model 1076. The 10mm Auto was introduced in 1983 and was a real hotrod with far too much recoil for practical law enforcement use. I had been experimenting with the 10 for IPSC competition and came to the conclusion that a 180-grain cast bullet at around 1,000 feet per second handily made major and was much easier to shoot. When the FBI began testing the 10mm they found the 180-grain bullet at 950 to 1,000 fps had great defensive potential as well.
There are conflicting claims over who did what…
- Winchester wins contract, posts profit.(Industry news)
- Magazine article from: Shooting Industry January 1, 2008 700+ words
The FBI has awarded Winchester Ammunition a contract...to company officials. Winchester Ammunition will produce...frangible ammunition for the FBI for one base year, with...is a testament to our Winchester engineers and the quality...
- A new gold standard: Winchester's platinum tip bullet is as good as it...
- Magazine article from: Petersen's Hunting Metcalf, Dick February 1, 2007 700+ words
...Its genesis came when the FBI's Firearms Training Unit...enter a radically new age. Winchester's approach, in what would...requirement of the new FBI performance standard. To accomplish this, Winchester engineers turned conventional...
- 30 years for teen predator: Winchester man ran away with 14-year-old.
- News wire article from: Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) December 22, 2006 700+ words
...comes nearly two months after Wise, a Winchester locksmith, was convicted of traveling...two had oral and anal sex. Police and FBI agents found the girl shortly after she...showed thousands of minutes of calls to a Winchester phone number, the mother called the...
- Girl, 15, testifies in Winchester man's trial on sex and child-porn charges.
- News wire article from: Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) October 4, 2006 700+ words
...told a federal jury today how she met a Winchester man on the Internet and how e-mails led...repeatedly to her mother, police and the FBI about her relationship with Charles Wise...lines for sex. Wise was arrested after FBI agents and police used cell-phone messages...
- Mother tells of anguish she felt when her daughter disappeared: TRIAL UNDER WAY...
- News wire article from: Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) October 4, 2006 700+ words
...her daughter and begged them to help her. While the FBI, Jonesboro and Winchester police hunted for her daughter over the next three...deputy and a Winchester locksmith, was arrested after FBI agents and police used cell phone messages to track...
- 9mm 115-grain JHP.
- Magazine article from: Handguns SANOW, CPL. ED January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Relative Incapacitation Index. The Winchester 115-grain Silvertip and the Federal...on hard times in the wake of the 1986 FBI/Miami shootout. The Winchester 115-grain Silvertip used by the FBI expanded and penetrated exactly as designed...
- Jail officer says he alerted FBI: FAYETTE LOCKUP IS TARGET OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS...
- News wire article from: Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) October 3, 2006 700+ words
...Jessamine County says he alerted the FBI to allegations of excessive...he has been working with the FBI in its investigation of alleged...whether Vest's work with the FBI came before or after he decided...Republican candidate, was born in Winchester, in Clark County, Adams said...
- FBI Probes Deerfield Beach, Fla.-Based Charity for Fraud.
- News wire article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) July 28, 2001 700+ words
...remains under investigation by the FBI for fraud, federal officials...Department of Agriculture. But FBI agents are still investigating...fraud within Food for the Poor, FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said...Financial Responsibility in Winchester, Va., sent a letter to Food...
- FBI investigates spending at Food for Poor.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter TRACY, TOM October 27, 2000 700+ words
...last year, which prompted the FBI investigation, according to...for the Miami Division of the FBI. She said the agency's...lawfully. We only pray that the FBI acts promptly so that our mission...Financial Accountability in Winchester, Va., sent their own experts...
- S.J. investigator to head state FBI chapter.
- Newspaper article from: Record (Stockton, CA) December 24, 2006 700+ words
...most people speak in her hometown of Winchester, Tenn., population 7,329. But...of the California Chapter of the FBI National Academy Associates, whose...first woman among the ranks of the Winchester Police Department. She worked there...
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