OK, folks. 9mm Parabellum isn’t any more accurate than 9mm Luger. It’s not more reliable. It does not have more “stopping power.” They are the exact same thing.
The 9mm Parabellum was designed and named by Georg Luger. Despite the fact that he never called the loading 9mm Luger, some American manufacturers referred to it as such because the pistol bearing his name became quite popular after the first World War. It made marketing easier.
Luger was not a Nazi. He died well before there was such a thing. Nor did General Patton “change the name” from Luger to Parabellum to make it sound “more American.”
I mean, where do people get this stuff?
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Damn. Does that mean I shouldn’t trust stuff I read on the interwebs? Especially about firearms??