This started out on topic but ended somewhere else (Gee what a suprise 
) So you can just skip over this reply, unless you are bored out of your mind and have nothing better to do, like comtiplate your navel or watch grass grow. Paint drying might be more intresting alos. But after going through all the trouble of typing it I ain't gonna delet it. I totally agree with
Skillet42565 and
GM4469. I would add to Skillet's statement the the 10mm is also an answer to a question never asked. Back in the stone age when I was on the job, there was a big to do about restricting how big/powerfull a round the LEOs should be allowed to carry. Back then it was either .38, One of the first standardized pistols through out the LEO community border to border I believe. Then there came about the .357, which was a pretty nice weapon since you could use either .38 or .357 and it gave you more options. But before the .357's came along Police used .38 and .45 almost exclusively. A very many police were veterans of WWII or Korea and had .45 and they knew them and preferred to use them. The I lose track of whether the .44 or the 9mm hit town first, and folks went wild as they say. Dirty Harry pretty much made the .44 especially the .44 auto mag "de rigor" for macho cops to carry. The problem soon became a race for the hottest rounds, .38 Plus the .38 plus P then the .38 Plus P plus and while those were becoming hotter and hotter all the other Calibers also increased in power, and trust me the .44 didn't need anymore help but got it anyway.
Which leads more or less to my point. What happened was as the rounds got hotter and hotter, they started punching through the bad guy and hitting things and people they weren't supposed to. There by making more than a few seriously miffed Citizens and bleeding hearts (oh lorde, killing the bad men is one thing but killing them with that much force just isn't fair to the poor little criminal) Why that's just plain cruel and unusual punishment. Ammo started getting designated in 3 categories. Wound/kill, Maim/kill, and kill. You hit someone with a 240 gr gas checked .44 anywhere at all and if they don't bleed out first the shock alone is enough to kill some folks. All of this outrage against "Police Brutality" lead a couple of companies to try a couple new ways to make money. The 10 mm hit first (pardon the Pun) as an alternative to the 9mm. It was a tad fatter and a bit slower so punch through was/is minimized because the body has more mass to slow and stop the round, and since it wasn't going as fast it also helped the body to absorb the impact, but it also appeared to have slightly more knock down power than the 9mm as so everyone was happy. But that still left the folks carring .44's and .45's out in the cold and most departments were forced to ban those caliber's, Until the .40 came along! After a while a lot of LEO's had been complaining bitterly that the 10mm didn't have the power they needed to go up against the bad guys that had no restrictions about what they got to use, and wanted to go back to at least carrying the .45 just be more carefull where you aim or down grade the charge just enough that the round wouldn't penatrate a person through and through. But the bleeding hearts and their Political lap dogs said Nay-Nay, and someone came up with the brilliant idea of what if we made a .40 cal? It would be almost the same as a .45, just a little smaller and slower than the .45 and less chance of punching through the bad buys. Everyone said yes we do need to protect our LEO's against those nasty crooks but not go back to the old school cave man days of yore. And the LEO's were more or less happy because they now had a round bigger than the wuss 10mm, and had the knock down that could level the playing filed and the public was ok with them using it. Oh Praise be, say it ain't so, the civilians are going to lets us have at least a small chance to protect their homes and persons! Yay!
And all was happy in Stupidville, whole lines of new pistols were designed and made and redesigned and up graded all around the .10 and the .40 not to mention a couple dozen Ammunition Companions making money by making and selling the ammo. After a couple years though since no one but the LEO's and wannabe LEO's and people that wanted to be "cool" were about the only ones using the .10 and the .40 while all the rest of the folks with an once of brain matter kept right on using the same guns they always had, and that btw included more than a few bleeding hearts that got the LEO's weapons and ammo changed. You would not believe how many of those wack jobs shoot Competition, but go completely nuts when talking about self defence and insist the LEO's are there to protect us. etc.
And there ya go the story of the .10 and the .40 and there is a lesson to be learned in there somewhere I'm pretty sure, but I can't remember where I left it when I was typing this. Oh ya, When you start letting the Bureaucrat's, Politions, and the Sheep decide how they are going to be protected and at what level of force. Then the public loses every single time, along with the LEO's, the bad guys keep getting bigger and better, and the rest of us decide to protect ourselves and our families instead of relying on the people that are paid to protect us and the people we elected to see that we are protected, because we know that those folks are Frustrated by being hobbled, and the others are to stupid to save them self's as long as they get to control everything else.
We also need LEO's that learned to be cops on the street running the departments and let the ones that learned how to be "Good Law Enforcement Officers" in colleg and got a degree. work the streets and see how long their trust in their professors and what they "Learned" about good police work lasts. Problem is that the college kids are running things and telling the veterans they are wrong about how they do their job, despite the fact that the proof the college kiddies and their so call expert professors are wrong is staring them straight in the face.
And yes, yes, yes! I know ok! Some, a very few LEO's ALL over the world have abused their powers, and so have the Federal Agencies, and the Government, and all it's happy small minded Bureaucrats. Don't go pointing fingers at every LEO and start off making him the Bad Guy. 99% really and truely want to help you. And you know what if he or she is a bad cop it's proberly because some, many people didn't vote, which means the same folks keep running things and they ain't running things any to well, and we just let them.
VOTE DAMNIT!! 10 mins or two hours, it's literally worth your life to take the time to vote.eeek! I think I did it again. So sorry, I swear I try to keep on topic. And almost all of that was on topic, wasn't it? We were talking .10 and .40s? right? Right?
