Today's 'standard' handgun calibers & cartridges

by FOG, Saturday, March 23, 2013, 16:19 (4208 days ago)

Going by what you can't get around here right now, I'd say these are today's 'standard' handgun calibers/cartidges:
• .22 Long Rifle
• .40 S&W
• 9 mm Parabellum
• .38 Special

There is *NO* .22 LR ammo on the shelf anywhere, nor is there any .40 S&W 'practice' ammuntion to be found.
(NOTE: The latter was only told to me; I don't have anything in .40 S&W.)

One store had a few boxes of 9 mm FMJ squirreled away behind the counter but still 'available' − at $30 each.
(One can only hope it wasn't FIOCCHI-brand...)

At another, I first heard of the .38 Special Drought Of '13, the existence of which surprised me until I remembered all those snubbies out there.

I imagine .223/5.56 is also in short supply − along with 7.62x39, I guess − but I don't have any sixguns in those calibers, either, so I didn't ask about them.

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