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Unread 01-21-2010, 01:26 PM   #7
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Thor,

Thanks very much for the comparison pictures, very interesting and revealing. The Swedes did away with the Finnish accellerator.

Charlie,

They are fairly common. The Swedish army used 9mm submachine gun ammunition in them, which is quite a bit more powerful than the standard 9x19mm Parabellum. This proved to be excessively hard on the pistols, and one of the reasons they were phased out of service was for physical breakage failures.

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