5-Shots, thnx' for the link (now closed for comments), and two questions...aren't Pardini the shotgun makers?
Secondly, the 9x19...is that another civilians can't own military calibers kind of thing? Tell us more about the cartridge; how does it compare ballistically with the 9x19?
While I'm sure the round is available in Italy, will your gun run on 9 Luger? (Assuming headspacing on the extractor)
Didn't mean to hijack, and as far as my own favorite autoloader, depends what it's to be used for. P365 for carry.
Moon
Hi halfmoonclip, sorry for the delay in replying but I just casually read your comment now.
Pardini mainly produces .22L.R caliber pistols and carbines for Olympic-type competitions. If I remember correctly, at the last Olympics, in the rapid shooting pistol final at a distance of 25 meters, all ten shooters used Pardini pistols.
Yes, in my Country, Italy, the 9mm Parabellum caliber pistols are not lawfully available to civilians and therefore are not available on the legal market. The 9 Parabellum cartridges (in Italy called 9 Luger) are regularly available in the gun shops (it seems to me, however, only in Lead Round Nose loads) because some 9 Parabellum caliber revolvers, such as the S&W 940 have been regularly sold in Italy and can be used but only with LRN cartridges (we have very strange gun laws ...). If I remember well, also some 9 Luger carabines have been regularly sold some years ago but no more available now. I'm pretty sure 99% of 9 Luger ammo sold in Italy are purchased by cops to train with their personal pistol at the range at their expence.
Yes, the pistols chambered for the 9x21 IMI cartridge can shoot 9 Luger ammo. The extractor holds the case and I assume it gets some abuse by shooting the 9 Luger continuously.
From a ballistic point of view, the 9x21 IMI and the 9x19 Parabellum are substantially equivalent: they use the same bullets, the same gunpowder, primers, etc. The OverAll Lenght is the same. The difference is that the in the 9x21 IMI the bullet is held 2mm more by the case. Someone claims that the 9x21 IMI, all parameters being equal, is capable of delivering an intrinsic higher accuracy than the 9x19 Parabellum but I have no proof of this.