Every day someone is buying their first handgun and, for many new shooters, .380 vs. 9mm is a valid comparison to consider. Both cartridges have the same bullet diameter, and user-friendly pistols are ...

The new M&P Bodyguard 2.0, chambered in .380 ACP, is just 5.5 inches long, small enough to fit in your front pocket. S&W’s Shield Plus Series is a slightly larger 9mm handgun built for self-defense.

38, .357, .380 auto and 9mm ammunition are all the same caliber. (Caliber is the size of the projectile, or bullet.) The different names are for marketing reasons or because of where the cartridge ...

Many small pocket semi-automatic pistols chamber and fire the .380 round because it’s smaller than 9mm and can therefore fit into an overall smaller package. In fact, the .380 ACP is often ...

It’s easy to see why: .380 pistols are typically small enough to carry in the pocket, they are unquestionably smaller and lighter than competing 9mm single stack autos or .38 snubnose revolvers.

380 Auto or 9mm Luger. How did Federal achieve this? They borrowed from what they learned in 2008 while developing the .327 Federal Magnum. A closer look at the specs of Federal’s new concealed ...

Available in 9mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP and .380 Auto, Liberty's high-performance ammunition has twice the effective range of standard ammo, provides up to 16% less felt recoil and considerably less ...

Colt brought the “pocket” M1911 concept to the market with its .380 ACP Mustang in 1983. Two decades later, M1911 manufacturers Kimber, SIG Sauer and Springfield Armory joined in, making their ...

380 version of the Shield EZ in 2018. Despite the higher caliber, the more powerful 9mm Shield EZ is still much easier to rack, or pull the slide to the rear, than other semi-autos in the same ...

As one of the most popular pocket-pistol cartridges today, the .380 ACP round is actually quite long in the tooth. Dating back more than a century to its creation by John Moses Browning ...

Every day someone is buying their first handgun and, for many new shooters, .380 vs. 9mm is a valid comparison to consider. Both cartridges have the same bullet diameter, and user-friendly pistols ...