Well, I am not a department, I am a single Armed Citizen.gigag04 wrote:Where the 9mm used to dominate, the .40 took over, but now we are seeing trends of more and more departments returning to .45acps, though as striker fired polymers instead of 1911s (which...I can understand, but I love me some 1911).
But I used to carry a .40 S&W (S&W M&P) because I liked the idea of 16 rounds in the gun instead of 9, and it was a lot lighter than my Para 14-45.
I have since switched back to a good ol' standard 1911 .45.
From a reloading perspective, I also prefer loading a .45 ACP. It is a much easier round to reload with a huge flexibility in available powders and bullet styles, and it is a low pressure round so it has a greater margin for error and is much less likely to have a small error go "Ka-Boom". The .40 S&W is a high pressure round in a small case with a much smaller "safety zone" of forgivable error. Get a little bit of bullet setback, and you could have a surprise. I have friends that quit reloading .40 S&W after they got a "Ka-Boom".