Despite the wide acceptance of the .40 Smith & Wesson defensive handgun cartridge in its early years, the round has since faded from armories around the U.S. and been replaced by an older, smaller ...

Interest in mid-size .45-cal. pistols that use single-stack magazines has lead to the release of Smith & Wesson’s M&P45. The striker-fired, recoil-operated pistol sports a polymer frame and ...

The CSX is tiny, virtually identical in size to a single-stack Kimber Micro 9 1911 and Springfield Armory’s popular Hellcat. Smith & Wesson’s website lists the height of the CSX as 4.6 inches, but the ...

So, they contracted Smith & Wesson to create one. The .40 S&W was the result. The FBI ended up using the .40 S&W for almost 30 years before adopting the 9mm in 2015.

U.S. gunmaker Smith & Wesson decided to make an Americanized version of the P-38 for the domestic market, ... single stack magazine held eight rounds of 9-millimeter Parabellum.