some cool guns from an italian manufacturer

[tjhaile]

I don't see what it can do that can't be done better by other cartridges. A 7mm pistol is too small to be useful for personal defence, regardless of how fast you push the bullet. For jurisdictions where such a thing is possible, .22 LR and .22 WMR fill the small game/varmint niche with a wide variety of loads at a probable lower cost and better availability than this new cartridge.

Personally, I have no interest in centrefire handgun cartridges smaller than 9mm in auto pistols or .38 Special in revolvers.

 

[B]

I don't see what it can do that can't be done better by other cartridges. A 7mm pistol is too small to be useful for personal defence, regardless of how fast you push the bullet. For jurisdictions where such a thing is possible, .22 LR and .22 WMR fill the small game/varmint niche with a wide variety of loads at a probable lower cost and better availability than this new cartridge.

Personally, I have no interest in centrefire handgun cartridges smaller than 9mm in auto pistols or .38 Special in revolvers.

The Russians for one would beg to differ. Not to mention the relatively slow for weight .32 cal chamberings have a big following in America.

 

[tjhaile]

If so, this is one instance where Ivan is flat out wrong. Then again, I guess wound ballistics don't matter much when the most common shot is through the back of the head. I don't recall the Russians ever using a 7mm pistol, anyway.

Nobody who studies wound ballistics in a professional capacity seriously recommends anything smaller than 9mm/.38 with good expanding bullets for defensive use for a good reason. Bullets can only expand so much and a larger diameter bullet will always make a bigger hole given two bullets of comparable construction and different calibres.