9×21mm
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The 9×21mm pistol cartridge (also known as the 9×21mm GP, 9×21mm IMI, 9mm IMI, 9×21mm Italian, or 9mm Italian) was designed by Jager (Loano, Italy), then adopted and commercialised by Israel Military Industries for jurisdictions where military service cartridges, like the 9×19mm Parabellum, are or were illegal for civilian purchase (i.e. France, Brazil, Mexico as well as Italy until 2021, when the 9×19mm was legalized for civilian use).
Key facts
- Firearm cartridge.name
- 9×21mm
- Firearm cartridge.image
- 9X21 and 9X19 cartridges.jpg
- Firearm cartridge.image_size
- 200px
- Firearm cartridge.caption
- 9×21mm (left) and parent 9×19mm Parabellum (right) cartridges
- Firearm cartridge.type
- Pistol
- Firearm cartridge.origin
- ItalyIsrael
- Firearm cartridge.designer
- Franco Benvenuti Agency (Italy) and Israel Military Industries (IMI)
- Firearm cartridge.production_date
- 1980–present
- Firearm cartridge.is_SI_specs
- yes
- Firearm cartridge.parent
- 9×19mm Parabellum
- Firearm cartridge.case_type
- Rimless, tapered
- Firearm cartridge.bullet
- 9.03
- Firearm cartridge.land
- 8.79
- Firearm cartridge.neck
- 9.63
- Firearm cartridge.base
- 9.93
- Firearm cartridge.rim_dia
- 9.96
- Firearm cartridge.rim_thick
- 1.27
- Firearm cartridge.case_length
- 21.15
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Israel
- Based on
- 9×19 mm Parabellum
- Designed by
- IMI Systems
- Image
- 9x21 IMI.jpg
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- inception
- 1984-00-00
- Commons category
- 9 x 21 mm cartridges
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Competition use
- Synonyms
- Cartridge dimensions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
The 9×21mm pistol cartridge (also known as the 9×21mm GP, 9×21mm IMI, 9mm IMI, 9×21mm Italian, or 9mm Italian) was designed by Jager (Loano, Italy), then adopted and commercialised by Israel Military Industries for jurisdictions where military service cartridges, like the 9×19mm Parabellum, are or were illegal for civilian purchase (i.e. France, Brazil, Mexico as well as Italy until 2021, when the 9×19mm was legalized for civilian use).
==History== Based on the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge, the case was lengthened from . The bullet sits slightly deeper in the case, which results in almost the same overall length as the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “9×21mm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.