The 10mm cartridge was selected for Federal Bureau of Investigation use after a Wound Ballistics Seminar at the FBI Academy in September 1987, which managed to agree what a good cartridge would do, but couldn't agree if 9mm or .45 ACP could meet FBI requirements. [21]

2018年7月25日 · The history of the 10mm and the FBI: The Miami shootout of April 11, 1986, led to bullet penetration and ammo tests for the FBI. The FBI’s move to 10mm was short-lived, with incessant problems with the S&W Model 1076. 10mm ammo proved expensive, large-framed handguns difficult to shoot, leading to the development of the .40 Smith & Wesson ...

2024年9月4日 · The FBI’s adoption of 10mm Auto in 1990 was supposed to be a revolutionary leap forward for law enforcement. It wasn’t. Today, we’re walking through the factors leading up to the FBI’s infamous decision and why they quickly ditched 10mm in favor of .40 S&W. Find out what went wrong, and the parts played by Smith & Wesson and Gaston Glock.

After extensive testing and evaluation, the FBI is replacing its existing .38 caliber revolvers with a new semiautomatic pistol that has been built to FBI specifications and is chambered for a new 10mm cartridge.

The Bren didn’t survive, but three things happened to save the 10mm — 1) Colt chambered their Government Model for it as the Delta Elite, keeping it available to shooters; 2) The FBI, briefly, adopted the 10mm in the form of the Smith & Wesson Model 1076; and 3) Folks who were in the land of big, people-eating bears realized large-diameter ...

For a while the 10 mm was the go-to cartridge for law enforcement, and the FBI’s adoption sent police agencies around the country wanting their own 10 mm. It was decided, though, that the 10mm was too powerful, and had too much recoil for most agents to successfully qualify, and therefore was viewed to be too much for the average agent to ...

2016年5月2日 · With the FBI declaring their service handguns deficient in "stopping power," the search began in earnest for a more powerful cartridge capable of penetrating to incapacitating depths. The FBI selected the 10mm Auto cartridge as its new service round and issued new pistols to all of its agents. Neutering the 10mm Auto

2014年2月21日 · When the FBI analyzed the event, one of their main conclusions was that the 9mm hollowpoint ammunition used by the agents had underpenetrated, and this drove the agency’s decision to adopt the 10mm Auto pistol cartridge as a replacement (which didn’t last long, and in turn led the the mass adoption of .40 S&W by law enforcement departments ...

Though the FBI was impressed with the performance of it during their evaluation and briefly used the cartridge in the Smith & Wesson Model 1076 handgun, the bureau ultimately decided the full power 10mm load produced more recoil than most agents could handle. Indeed, the FBI test report on the cartridge was apparently labeled:

2021年3月12日 · To at least solve the first problem, the FBI adopted a downloaded 10mm paired with the Smith & Wesson Model 1076, a double/single-action pistol with a 4.25-inch barrel. Smith & Wesson Model 1076 But the Model 1076 proved unreliable, not to mention too bulky for reasonable concealment.