What kind of ammo does a Ruger P95 use?

What kind of ammo does a Ruger P95 use?

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The RUGER® P95™ pistols are chambered for the 9mm x 19 Parabellum (9mm Luger) cartridge. Do not attempt to load any other 9mm cartridges (examples: 9mm short [. 380], 9mm Steyr, 9mm Bergmann, etc.) into the magazine or chamber of the pistol.

What is a P95 mask?

You might know P95 masks by their more common name — dust masks. The classification P95 means that the mask is resistant to oil and can filter 95% of airborne particles. Before COVID-19, P95 masks were well known by people in wildfire danger zones, since they can protect wearers from harmful heavy smoke.

Is the Ruger P95 a good pistol?

A reliable pistol in 9mm, accuracy is a matter of the shooter. Though no longer in production, the Ruger P95 is a common sight on the secondary market. Often these pistols can be purchased for pennies when compared to newer handguns and are just as serviceable as anything else.

What kind of gun is a Ruger P series pistol?

Like most Ruger firearms of the era, earlier P-series pistols, which date back the mid-eighties, were steel- or aluminum-framed, DA/SA, and were offered in the usual range of calibers; 9mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP.

What is a P95?

This brings us to the P95 — a design that would also be scaled up for .45 ACP and dubbed the P97. The P95 is rather conventional in operation. It is a hammer-fired, double/single action design with a slide mounted safety/decocker. This feature is obviously a holdover from the XM9 trials, and was quite en vogue for the era.

What happened to Ruger’s P-series?

Ruger’s popular SR series of polymer frame striker-fired pistols (including the uber-popular Ruger SR9 was preceded by the P-series of double action/single action pistols. The last of the P-series pistols was the P95, which Ruger quietly retired in October of 2013. Few lamented the passing of this under-appreciated pistol.