The .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol), also known as .45 Auto, .45 Automatic, or 11.43×23mm is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John...

The .45 ACP (not to be confused with .45 Colt) cartridge is a very popular caliber due to its low velocity and relatively high stopping power. This caliber...

managing editor of Gun World magazine. It is dimensionally similar to the .45 ACP round but has a thicker case wall and is loaded to higher pressures, which...

the .45 ACP, have a stronger case head to reduce the possibility of case neck blowouts, and be shorter to fit in a more compact handgun. The .45 GAP is...

names as the .45 ACP and Model 1911 pistols will often be called ".45 Colt" in common usage, leading many to call the .45 Colt the .45 "Long Colt" similar...

the Year" by American Rifleman for 2003, followed by the XD chambered in .45 ACP being named "Handgun of the Year" by both American Rifleman and the Shooting...

pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original...

pistol – .380 ACP) Daewoo DH40 (South Korea – semi-automatic pistol – .40 S&W) Daewoo DH45 (South Korea – semi-automatic pistol – .45 ACP) Daewoo DP51...

"subcompact", "competition" (.45 ACP only), and "long slide" (10mm only). Additionally, Glock introduced the "subcompact" Glock 30S in .45 ACP adjusted to use the...

appear similar. The .32 ACP, .38 ACP, and .25 ACP are semi-rimmed and headspace on the rim, while the rimless .45 ACP and .380 ACP headspace on the mouth...

Colt M1900 (.38 ACP) (never issued) Colt M1902 (.38 ACP) (never issued) Colt M1903 (.32 ACP) (General Officers) Colt M1905 (.45 ACP) (never issued) Colt...

The .45 Auto Rim, also known as 11.5x23mmR, is a rimmed cartridge specifically designed to be fired in revolvers originally chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge...

improved and submitted in the trails August 1941. A model chambered in .45 ACP which took Colt M1911 magazines was manufactured, the firing port was enlarged...

energy; most loadings have greater muzzle energy than many factory-loaded .45 ACP loadings. 115 Gr (7.5 g) full metal jacket: 1,405 feet per second (428 m/s)...

level. For more powerful calibers such as the 9 mm Parabellum (9 mm) and .45 ACP, some form of locked-breech is needed to retard breech opening, as an unlocked...

357 Magnum loads, and retain more kinetic energy at 100 yards than the .45 ACP has at the muzzle. The 10mm outperforms the .40 S&W by 150–300 ft/s (46–91 m/s)...

45 Winchester Magnum is a .45 caliber rimless cartridge intended for use in semi-automatic pistols. The cartridge is an externally lengthened .45 ACP...

one loading of the same cylinder (e.g., 2 adjacent rounds of .45 ACP, 2 rounds of .45 Colt, and 2 rounds of .410 in a single six-chamber S&W Governor...

power of the .45 ACP cartridge. The .45 ACP version was Beretta's entry in U.S. military's Joint Combat Pistol program. The Px4 .45 ACP is available as...

turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired the .45 ACP pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Due to this limitation, it was...

Pistol – .45 ACP) Claridge Hi-Tec Pistol C45 (US – Semi-Automatic Pistol – .45 ACP) Claridge Hi-Tec Pistol LEC45 (US – Semi-Automatic Pistol – .45 ACP) Claridge...

The Colt Officer's Model or Colt Officer's ACP is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, and recoil-operated handgun based on the John M. Browning...

Guncrafter Industries' .45 ACP conversion unit. The .45 ACP magazines hold 8 rounds. Physically, the .50 GI round is wider than the .45 ACP and slightly longer...

45 ACP, pistol cartridge .45 Colt, revolver cartridge Jacobite rising of 1745 or "The '45", in the United Kingdom Forty-fives, a card game 'The 45%',...

Smith & Wesson Pistols S&W .45 Limited (US - Semi-Automatic Pistol - .45 ACP) S&W .45 Recon (US - Semi-Automatic Pistol - .45 ACP) S&W Bodyguard .380 (US...

pins can be replaced without special fitting. CZ 97B .45 ACP version of the CZ 75 B CZ 97 BD .45 ACP version of the CZ 75 BD CZ 75 Automatic A selective-fire...

45 ACP) Beretta 8045 LAPD (Italy - Compact Semi-Automatic Pistol - .45 ACP) Beretta 8045 Cougar G (Italy - Compact Semi-Automatic Pistol - .45 ACP) Beretta...

Hi-Point Firearms chambered for 9×19mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, 10mm Auto, .45 ACP, .380 ACP and .30 Super Carry handgun cartridges. They are inexpensive as they...

accuracy, led to the duplication of the cartridges' characteristics in the .45 ACP, which would be later chambered in Colt's M1911 pistol. In the early 1880s...

wounded, the FBI started the process of testing 9×19mm Parabellum and .45 ACP ammunition in preparation to replace its standard-issue revolver with a...