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From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
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Subject: Re: blowback definition
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Date: 4 Jun 91 03:14:42 GMT
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And then there's weird arrangements like the little Detonics 9mm pistol
that was blowback--but had a ring carved around the inside of the chamber.
When the cartridge detonated, the case was supposed to expand into the ring
and hold the case in the chamber just long enough... 

I don't know if this worked very well or not. I don't think they make this
pistol any more, so maybe that has something to do with it.
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