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TIL the British entered their own cartridge into NATO's PDW trials, which sought to replace the standard 9x19mm Parabellum round. Competing with FN's 5.7x28mm round and H&K's 4.6x30mm was .224 Boz, a necked down 10mm Auto cartridge.

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