Type 14 8mm Japanese Nambu History & Specifications ... 85-grain full metal jacket (FMJ), whilst the 8mm Nambu ammo was a generic (no manufacturing specs listed anywhere on the box) 106-grain ...

For "I Have This Old Gun," Mark Keefe offers the history of the Japanese Type 14 Nambu pistol. For all new episodes of American Rifleman TV, tune into Outdoor Channel on Wednesday nights.

of muzzle energy—roughly the equivalent of the .32 ACP. Efforts to reduce the production cost of Nambu pistols resulted in the Type 14 Nambu, introduced in 1925. Three years later it was adopted ...