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Subject: Re: Birth of the 9mm
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Date: 17 Jun 91 21:30:42 GMT
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    I have read in several sources that the 9mm parabellum was designed in
1902, not 1904.  And the new cartridge was developed in order to suit
the United States Army, who had rejected, in tests, the Model 1900 Luger
because its 7.65 cartridge was too small.  But again the U.S. rejected the
Luger, even with its 9mm cartridge.

   As for the origins of the 7.65 Parabellum or .30 Luger.  It was developed
in 1898 of Georg Luger for his redesigned Borchardt pistol.  Luger took the lon
longer (23mm?) case of the 7.63 Mauser, which was simply the same case
as that for the 1893 Borchardt pistol.  The original 7.63 Borchardt cartridge
was designed by Hugo Borchardt.

 (I believe the source was either Edward Ezell's "Handguns of the World"
or John Walter's book "Luger".)
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MICHAEL F. GORDON             JCEHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

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