ETA: do any of ya’ll remember this one?
While browsing through my 12th edition Cartridges of the World last night I came across the old 9mm Federal round. It was a rimmed cartridge that was the same length as 9mm. The factory loading was a 115gr bullet @ 1280 FPS from a 4” test barrel. The only guns ever produced in this caliber were from charter arms for a couple of years and it lived a short life from only 1989-194. Why the short life, because one or two idiots put them in some old break-top .38’s and blew up their guns.
That sucks, because it could be an awesome little wheel gun chambering and would be even cooler if Ruger or Smith would produce a gun with a shorter frame and cylinder to go with. I wonder if one of the smaller makers like Buffalo bore or Corbon would be interested in tooling up for this if the current ammo insanity ever abates.