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Why they've chosen to call it 9mm intead of 9.3mm and x53 instead of x54 is beyond me
Simple, because they named "their" cartridge in the old European fashion not for the bullet, but for the bore diameter, sans rifling grooves.
Very correct, Kuduae. The Russian military version of the 9,3x64 (used as a sniper cartridge in the SVDK, and loaded by LVE Novosibirsk) is called "9x64"; yet it uses the same bullet diameter.
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