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Posted: 11/20/2012 3:46:16 PM EDT

[#1]

.22 and 9mm

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:13:38 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Seems like ?
Around here 9mm and .45 are always sold out and .40 sits on the shelves.

Exactly like that here.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:18:20 PM EDT

[#3]

Based on the brass I pick up at the range, its:

1) 9mm
2) .45acp
3) .40

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:19:04 PM EDT

[#4]

I don't own a single .40. I have 380,9mm,.38 and .45.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:22:15 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Christ no. It's getting to be in the same league with the .45 GAP and the .41 mag.

I see from patrolling the For Sale Boards, the Fowtay is just not very popular these days. 9mm and .45 sell much quicker.

Even at the worst of the ammo shortage the boxes of .45 GAP sat dusty and alone on the shelves of local gun shops.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:26:21 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Seems like ?

Around here 9mm and .45 are always sold out and .40 sits on the shelves.

Exactly like that here.

Same here. I almost bought a G23 due to the constant availability of .40 S&W but even that was not enough to convince me to get into the caliber.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:28:22 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Not even close.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:32:57 PM EDT

[#8]

Id say it's still 9mm in my opinion but Ive been wrong before

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:35:38 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Maybe if you factor in LEO's. Around here at least, every agency uses .40

Everyone around here uses either 45 ACP or 357 Sig. Do have one PD that is still using 45 GAP.

The got the guns for FREE.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:36:09 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Seems like ?
Around here 9mm and .45 are always sold out and .40 sits on the shelves.

+1

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:49:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Seems like ?
Around here 9mm and .45 are always sold out and .40 sits on the shelves.

Exactly like that here.

Same here, during the BIG shortage after the FSA elected zero the first time, .45acp was non existent for about 9 months, 9mm was extremely sparse, and overpriced when you found a box or two. Don't think I ever went to WalMart when there was not any .40 on the shelf.

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:51:42 PM EDT

[#12]

Among citizens, 9mm is sold in far greater quantity than 40

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:56:14 PM EDT

[#13]

9mm or 22lr has my vote

Posted: 11/20/2012 4:58:03 PM EDT

[#14]

As a previous poster mentioned, people who buy .40 caliber pistols don't shoot them much from what I see. I personally know four people who have a Glock in .40 caliber, and none of them have even fired them in the past year. None of the four even own more than a box or two of ammo for it either. Oh yeah - and one of the four had a ND a few years back too!

People I know with a 9mm or .45 shoot often, buy ammo in quantity, and or reload.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:01:38 PM EDT

[#15]

What is this 40 everyone is talking about? I have never heard of it?

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:02:51 PM EDT

[#16]

I just found this and it breaks down how many of each rifle,pistol and shotgun was sold in 2009.
The thing that kills me is Marlin was making a butt load of rifles and sold to Cerberus.(Marlin fan boy)

http://www.atf.gov/statistics/download/afmer/2009-firearms-manufacturers-export-report.pdf

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:06:20 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Not even close.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:12:14 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

It's a gimmick caliber like 10 mm .

I'm not sure what the gimmick is?

I wouldn't want to be shot w/ a 40, whether it wins the popularity contest or not...

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:16:31 PM EDT

[#19]

I have .40, 9mm, and 10mm. No .45 acp.
I carry 10mm.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:18:00 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Not even close.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:18:47 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

.22lr is still king.

easily, then probably 25 or 38spl.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:21:13 PM EDT

[#22]

.40>All others.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:25:23 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's a gimmick caliber like 10 mm .

I'm not sure what the gimmick is?

I wouldn't want to be shot w/ a 40, whether it wins the popularity contest or not...

I wouldn't want to be shot with anything if I had a choice. Especially a 10mm.

Or a .40.

9mm rules though for serious caliber use IMO.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:25:59 PM EDT

[#24]

It's the shittiest caliber in the US.

.40 K&B

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:27:28 PM EDT

[#25]

I don't even know anybody who has a .40

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:35:45 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I tend to think that if you could dig every pistol out of all the homes in the USA to take inventory that .38 would be the most owned caliber of all.

The guns been around for generations, long enough for guns bought new when the caliber was the new hotness, to have been passed to from buyer, to son, to grandson, to great grandson. The .38 has had the longest run as the standard police firearm fo decades and has been in US military inventory for most of its lifetime as well.

Based on its law enforcement and military careers it's likely many, many of those guns were sold to police wanna-be's, to military shooters and to cops as backup guns. And I have no doubt that those guns are still out in the publics' hands. Plus until the acceptance of the 9mm by the American public the .38 was the typical "cheap handgun" well into the 1980s.

Only when the magnum craze took off with Dirty Harry did the majority of the US gunbuying public even realize something besides the .38 and maybe the .45ACP even existed.

What's the most common caliber in the US? I'd bet big it's the .38.

That sounds reasonable as far as guns owned. But what people shoot, at the ranges I've visited, is 9mm then 45 for center fire. But rimfire still out numbers everything else.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:38:04 PM EDT

[#27]

9MM is king here.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:38:05 PM EDT

[#28]

It's not THE most common caliber, but it is among the more common and popular choices out there. 40 S&W isn't rare or unpopular, except in the minds of the denizens of GD.

The most common caliber chambered in handguns is .22 Long Rifle. Next up would be .25 ACP, 38 Special, and .380 ACP. 9mm Luger would be very close behind, but only because of the number of cheap guns chambered for it, when it fell out of favor in the post "Wonder Nine" era.

The .40 S&W filled a need back when it was introduced. While it can be argued that modern 9mm loadings makes it redundant, that is a position I do not subscribe to. The cartridge is firmly established, and it's here to stay.

And it gets the job done.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:39:42 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Not even close.

This.

Posted: 11/20/2012 5:51:52 PM EDT

[#30]

I'm looking at getting an inexpensive police surplus .40S&W since it is a decent make pistol that is way below the cost of a 9x19mm.
Don't like the idea of adding .40 to the mix but it isn't that hard to find remanufactured ammo to blast away with.
<<No, it is a Beretta, not a Glock, so no worries about the unsupported chamber.>>

Posted: 11/20/2012 6:14:57 PM EDT

[#31]

I'm in the process of cleaning and sorting six 5 gallon buckets of range brass. Range is used by in order of number of users, LEO, military, civilians. 70% is 9mm, 20% is 45 acp, 5% is 40, then 380, 5.7, 22lr, and 38.

Posted: 11/20/2012 6:20:09 PM EDT

[#32]

,22 first (everyone has one and shoots it regardless of what other calibers they choose.
9mm second

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's a gimmick caliber like 10 mm .

In my opinion (which ain't worth shit) 10mm started out with the best of intentions. And it was to be brought out with a pistol that actually would have been a "game changa" in service pistols. There were shenaniganz. If it (the pistol) would have taken off as it was intended, I'd probably be carrying one in 10mm today. It is an impressive round.
As it stands, I have 9mms, .45s, and .357s.
Neither 10mm or the girl cop cartridge, 40s&w, fill a niche for me.

10mm and .41 magnum (previously belittled by a separate poster from the one you called BS on) are very real deal rounds with similar intentions and histories. Their only detriments were politics, not shortcomings in intended purposes.

Posted: 11/20/2012 6:24:23 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's a gimmick caliber like 10 mm .

In my opinion (which ain't worth shit) 10mm started out with the best of intentions. And it was to be brought out with a pistol that actually would have been a "game changa" in service pistols. There were shenaniganz. If it (the pistol) would have taken off as it was intended, I'd probably be carrying one in 10mm today. It is an impressive round.
As it stands, I have 9mms, .45s, and .357s.
Neither 10mm or the girl cop cartridge, 40s&w, fill a niche for me.

For me 10mm fills the ONLY niche. For everything else there's 9mm.

Posted: 11/20/2012 6:30:07 PM EDT

[#34]

I had an ongoing argument going on in my head, 9mm vs .45. I couldn't decide which was better? They are both great. I then decided they are both better than .40 cal. Then purchased a dozen handguns, 6 in 9mm, 6 in .45. I still haven't figured out which is better.

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:06:42 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Quoted:
It's a gimmick caliber like 10 mm .

In my opinion (which ain't worth shit) 10mm started out with the best of intentions. And it was to be brought out with a pistol that actually would have been a "game changa" in service pistols. There were shenaniganz. If it (the pistol) would have taken off as it was intended, I'd probably be carrying one in 10mm today. It is an impressive round.
As it stands, I have 9mms, .45s, and .357s.
Neither 10mm or the girl cop cartridge, 40s&w, fill a niche for me.

For me 10mm fills the ONLY niche. For everything else there's 9mm.

I figured that being in Alaska, you'd have a .44 mag.

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:10:41 AM EDT

[#36]

Most folks I know with a .40 usually sell it for a 9 and a .45 later on.

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:14:44 AM EDT

[#37]

.22 or 9mm

I own a .40 and love that I can always find ammo at the stores whenever I need it.

That being said....my next gun will be either a 9mm or .45

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:42:24 AM EDT

[#38]

.357 sig !

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:43:18 AM EDT

[#39]

Just seems that way because so many shoot it, so few reload it––the dang brass is everywhere.

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:47:30 AM EDT

[#40]

You should count all the ammo in the U.S. and get back to us.

Jim

Posted: 11/21/2012 6:50:14 AM EDT

[#41]

I'd suspect .22lr is still the top.

Though for what it is worth, for handguns traced by the ATF, the most common are S&W .38spls. S&W, Hi-Point, and Ruger 9mms are also very high on the list, with, if I recall correctly, .40 Glocks being fairly low in the top ten, but above 9mm Glocks.