.45 ACP (no ontology)

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The .45 ACP (more rarely, 11.43x23mm) is a popular handgun cartridge developed in 1904 by John Moses Browning. It is a somewhat common caliber used in handguns and submachine guns.

Real-life data

Since the late 1890s to the early 20th Century, the US Cavalry was field-testing several handguns; the Colt Single Action Army had long been replaced by double-action versions of the same weapon. Most notably, the cavalry fielded .38 Long Colt double-action revolvers, although they determined that they were much less effective than .45 Colt against determined and/or fearless opponents, as proved during the Philippine-American War and the Moro Rebellion. During the latter conflict, the .30-40 Krag-caliber rifles failed to stop the Moro warriors effectively.

This experience, and tests conducted by Thompson-LaGarde in 1904, led the US Army and Cavalry to decide that a minimum of .45 caliber was required in the new handgun. At that point, John Browning was working with Colt on a .41 caliber (10 mm) cartridge; the US Army requested a .45 caliber variant of this cartridge. The end results were the Colt model 1905 handgun and the .45 Automatic Colt Pistol, aka .45 ACP.

By 1906, six makers bid on the production of the cartridge and submitted their designs for an evaluation round, but only three of them made the cut: DWM, Savage Arms and Colt. Five years later, a second evaluation round was held, and this time Savage's design suffered 37 stoppages and failures, leaving only Colt's design, which passed without any problems. This design would go on to become the famous Model 1911 pistol.

Although the cartridge was developed by John Browning of Colt, it is John Thompson, of Auto Ordnance who was the most influential to the US Army in the choice of this caliber. Thompson would later design for the same caliber the ever-so-popular Thompson Submachine gun, well-known by its nickname, the Tommy Gun.

Mazeworld overview

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• Available for purchase in a gun shop or a weapon shop, in boxes of 50 or 150 rounds
• Costs 100 P$ for 50 rounds, and 300 P$ for 150 rounds
• Value of a single round is 2 P$
• Recoil level of this round is 3 - Normal
• Availability of this caliber:
  • Can be found at random in the rooms
  • NKDSNAK crate: 35 rounds ; WPN-2 crate: 60 rounds ; AMMO-1 crate: 60 rounds

Weapons compatible

Class 2 weapons

• Colt M1921A Thompson
• Heckler ＆ Koch UMP-45
• General Motors M3 'Grease Gun'
• KRISS Vector

Class 3 weapons

• Colt M1911A1
• Glock 21
• Heckler ＆ Koch HK45
• Heckler ＆ Koch Mark 23
• Heckler ＆ Koch USP Tactical
• MAC-10
• Para Ordnance P-14.45
• Star Megastar

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See also

• Ammunition
• Weapon

• Wikipedia article