.45 ACP/Shanxi Type 17 Broomhandle

[alvin]

Originally Posted by conehammer

It seems to me that if the chamber is 26mm instead of 23mm a standard 45 acp round should never fire so what about all the accounts of firing 'tests' I've seen??

Something doesn't quite line up folks.

It's a good point.

Even with very wrong headspace, say, 3mm longer, the gun could still fire -- the extractor holds the cartridge in place so it would not fall deep into chamber -- It will not fire reliably, but using long chamber to prevent firing definitely won't be very effective. So the theory does have a serious hole.