i know about the 10mm but are there any other commercialy available generaly accepted auto calibers that can be deamed as a magnum?
i know there are the wildey magnums but lets face it those arent as easily attainable as a 10mm
oh and one more thing i know that the desert eagle can shoot .357 and .44 but lets keep this to calibers made for autoguns not guns built around revolver magnums
With maybe one or two exceptions, not any that don't hugely violate the "reasonable size and weight" requirement to qualify them as suitable for daily concealed carry, not just as "sh*ts-n-giggles" range toys.
This is generally taken to mean a size & weight maximum that's roughly at or near that of a 5" Government model 1911/A1.
That paradigm envelope - again, a sort of rough maximum - would allow for similar full-size duty guns like the S&W's 3rd Generation 45XX-series and 10XX-series; in the CZ-derivative line, the 10mm Witnesses, 10mm Bren Ten and, if we ever see it, Vltor's 5" standard model 10mm "Fortis"; and, when it was around back in the day, the old Coonan model B, a 1911 with slightly elongated frame, chambered for the .357 magnum revolver cartridge. And certainly the large-frame Glock 20/21, with it's polymer composition and 4.6" barrel/slide, falls within the acceptable "full-size" range.
All those pants-drooping behemoths, like the Wildeys, Desert Eagles and the old AutoMags, just don't make the cut, even though they're clearly magnum-level cartridges.
High-pressure cartridges that can operate within the full-size 1911-frame, by means swapping out the barrel and spring, like the .460 Rowland, .40Super, and maybe the .400CorBon, probably do qualify for "magnum autoloader" status. However, for these, I'm unsure about how "available" they are for immediate purchase, like at a gunshop (some of them, frankly, make the 10mm look as ubiquitous as the .22 l.r. by comparison), ... and whether they're "generally accepted" is kinda vague.
But of course, of all of these, the
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