-=> Quoting John Sandow to Matt Smith <=-
 MS>JS> I've had a USP40 for several years now,
 JS> The orgional chambering was .40S&W, this being one of the few pistols 
 JS> designed for that chambering rather than being scaled up from an
 JS> existing  9mm plan.  The result, is that the 9mm version uses a barrel
 JS> of the same  outer dimensions, yet the barrel and chamber inner
 JS> diameters are smaller, resulting in one of the strongest, if not _the_
 JS> strongest 9mm chambers  made.
Then HK must recommend a steady diet for the USP of IMI high-pressure 
9mm 158 gr subsonic 9mm subgun ammo & IMI black-tip high pressure
submachine gun ammo, along with the Communist Red Star 9mm super-high
pressure subgun ammo, all hotter that 9mm ++P++.  Glock does . . .
 JS> The USP40's barrel weighs over twice as much as my S&W's .40 barrel, 
 JS> it'll mass even more with the smaller bore and chamber.
 JS> I don't know if they reccommend using +p ammo in the 9mm version, but
 JS> the  barrel is easily beefier than Beretta's 92 series,and Beretta has
 JS> no  restrictions on +p or +p+ ammo.  
Navy Seals found that the use of IMI 9mm 158 gr subsonic subgun ammo in
their suppressed Beretta 92s was cracking the slides . . . . .  These same
rounds have turned a number of HK's MP-5 subguns into shrapnel!  Glock
_recommends_ this ammo for everyday target practice in their pistols.
... Glock 'N' Load
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