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First let me say that I like odd stuff. The 45 GAP has always had a certain amount of appeal to me. I have both a G37 and a G38. Both are LEO trade-ins. I understand the reason for their coming into existence...the 45 ACP just wouldn’t fit into a 9MM platform frame so Glock came up with a shorter cartridge in an effort to capture a part of the law enforcement market that wanted a large bore pistol on a frame that would accommodate officers with smaller hands. I think the fact that they had to go with a wider slide may have hurt that project as new holsters were required to accommodate these slides as opposed to being able to use existing holsters for 9MM size frames.
All of this considered, if I believe what I read, law enforcement is migrating back to the 9MM due to advancements in high performance ammo and the consensus that the majority of officers shoot the 9MM more accurately. The added bonus of more ammo in the 9MM helps also. The one saving grace for the 45 GAP may be in other countries where civilians are forbidden to have handguns of the same caliber as their police agencies and the military and the police and military are forbidden to share the same cartridge; although the logic of that argument has always escaped me. So here’s the question: Is the 45 GAP slated to become extinct?
All of this considered, if I believe what I read, law enforcement is migrating back to the 9MM due to advancements in high performance ammo and the consensus that the majority of officers shoot the 9MM more accurately. The added bonus of more ammo in the 9MM helps also. The one saving grace for the 45 GAP may be in other countries where civilians are forbidden to have handguns of the same caliber as their police agencies and the military and the police and military are forbidden to share the same cartridge; although the logic of that argument has always escaped me. So here’s the question: Is the 45 GAP slated to become extinct?