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EastTexasRancher wrote:I watched him wipe his fingerprints off the slide with his skirt as he walked off......

That's hilarious!!

SQLGeek wrote:

Soccerdad1995 wrote:
Personally, I don't like the .40 because the recoil in the guns I tried was worse than a .45. And the bullets are too easily confused with 9mm for me to keep both in my rotation.

I don't like .40 because it throws me off sometimes when scrounging brass from the range.

Ha! The 1 time a shooting buddy brought me a box of pick ups from his home range it had a bunch of .40 mixed in and he doesn't even have a .40!

mrvmax wrote:Denial won’t change the fact that .40 is dying. Police departments are leaving it in droves and there is a surplus of police trade ins in .40. My firearm distributors are putting new pistols in .40 S&W on clearance, that in itself is an indicator of a lack of demand. They are not taking a loss over what they bought them at if they could sell them at their original price. The manufacturers are not going to produce pistols if there is no demand for them, it’s like finding a pistol in .357 Sig. There are better calibers and it appears that ballistic testing has proven that.

Manufacturers will produce what sells and moves and the .40 doesn’t. Deny if you want but I see no real reason why pistols in .40 will make a resurgence. Now granted Glock still make a pistol in 45 GAP and I’ve never met someone who shoots that caliber so there may be a glimmer of hope somewhere.

Declining in popularity is not the same as dying.

See the .45acp... people feared extinction when Mil dropped it, and again when glock littered the world and yet again when the bulk of LEO agency's dropped it for softer shooting higher capacity guns. Ironically, [and arguably] the .45acp is as popular as ever for both target and carry. In shear numbers, fewer rounds of 45 are probably produced and shot than when Mil used it as a primary sidearm, but in the civilian world it's still going strong.

I see LEO trades all over for cheap... 9/40/45 the issue is that many are either beat up or neglected, and some are pristine... without taking one down to inspect, it can be hard to tell what you get. Calibers are also regionally popular, it seems, so you may be in a .40 free zone.

Military and LEO trends are wonderful in predicting popularity on the new side of the cycle- but NOT on the tail end of the cycle. If that weren't the case, revolvers would have been dead long before the turn of the century. And wheelguns are still a strong segment of the market.

Beiruty wrote:40 is not dead. 10mm is now called the "Bang Bang" thingy.
I never intended to reload or own a 40 Caliber pistol until I could not resist adopting this "feral pistol"
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CIKxs89r0zj1VBua2

Love the gun, Beiruty!

I never intended to own a .40 but ended up with one. Since I reload, I'm not concerned about ammo availability.... I believe, however, that commercial .40 cal ammo will be readily available beyond my lifetime.