40 cal hype is over??

[300rum]

I'm not sure what the FBI is using for ammo, I'll have to look that up but it is coming from them and their testing.

· 9mm Luger now offers select projectiles which are, under identical testing conditions, I outperforming most of the premium line .40 S&W and .45 Auto projectiles tested by the FBI

I would love to see which 9mm projectiles are outperforming premium .40 cal rounds?

I showed just one typical example from Speer LE Gold dots, very popular round for Law Enforcement, every ammo seller I know makes same type ammo for both calibers.

[300rum]

There you go.....

http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/news/2015/11/02/fbi-going-back-to-9mm-ammunition.aspx

According to FBI Special Agent Ray Cook, the current unit chief of the FBI’s Defensive Systems Unit, the bureau, which continuously tests various types of ammunition, began considering a return to the 9mm round in 2007 in part because of advances in ballistic technology.

The new 9mm round —the 147-grain Speer Gold Dot G2 — is significantly more effective than what FBI agents carried into the field in 1986. According to Cook, the bullet has been rigorously tested and has received high marks in the FBI’s most important category for bullet selection: penetration.

Cook says that the lighter the bullet, the faster the gun can “drive” the round into the target. For the FBI, that translates into 12 to 18 inches of penetration into the human body. The 9mm’s weight, Cook added, also increases an agent’s accuracy in a gunfight, according to the findings of a 2014 FBI report that was leaked online last year.

[Alchase]

What you posted is totally correct, 9mm ammo (and all other ammo) is significantly more effective than what they had in 1986.

And the penetration modern 9mm rounds have, is more than efficient to kill.

But as you can see by my earlier post comparing the Speer 147gr 9mm to the same bullet in 155gr .40 cal., the .40 is 40% more effective,
if they can put rounds on target,
LOL

We are in a "golden era of ammo" right now. It will take another major breakthrough to continue the increases in performance we have seen over the last 20 years.