Swedish Lahti

Dwight Gruber · 01-21-2010, 01:26 PM

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.

--Dwight

01-21-2010, 01:26 PM	#7
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	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. --Dwight