It turns out that the 40 was just another FBI hoax. I gave it the attention it deserved.
The FBI didn't invent the .40 S&W. I don't recall the FBI issuing the .40 until the late 90's. I don't think the FBI was even the first LE agency to issue the .40 S&W.
Perhaps it is true that the .40 S&W was created as a result of the FBI adopting a downloaded 10mm but to call it "Just another FBI hoax" is inaccurate - sorta like how lots of people shoot the .40 S&W.
Yeah, at full power it is a handful. Same pressures as a 9mm but heavier bullets? No wonder it kicks more.
The *hoax* was the narrative that the FBI, post Orlando, needed an "upgrade" in pistol caliber. That was really only needed as a diversion from the sorry fact of bad training, among other things.
Or would you rather accept that the current handgun preference is the hoax?
And BTW, that hoax spread across the nation's LEA's and cost us all a lot of money.
