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9 × 17 mm

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A rimless, straight taper, brass case with Berdan or Boxer priming. There are numerous designs of bullet, mostly soft point in order to improve the stopping ability, but the military/police standard is a metal jacketed, lead-cored, round-nose bullet of 6.15 g weight. Frangible bullets have recently been introduced for this cartridge. Introduced by Colt in the USA in 1908 as the 0.380 Auto Pistol round. In 1910 it was adopted by Fabrique National Herstal for its Model 1910 pistol. FN coined the name 'Browning
Short' to distinguish it from the existing 9 mm Browning cartridge, which thereafter became the 'Browning Long'. Widely adopted by central European police forces from the outset, the 9 × 17 mm went into use as a military cartridge in the 1920s, notably by Czechoslovakia and Italy. It is still widely used by police and security forces and is particularly applicable as an airline security round. It combines adequate stopping power with a velocity low enough to reduce the risk of overpenetration or ricochet, especially when frangible ammunition is used. Applications include all pistols chambered for 9 × 17 mm or any of the synonyms shown above. The cartridge has also been tried in one or two sub-machine guns, without much success.