The .22 Short-Long is the oldest surviving rimfire cartridge still in mass production in GLMZ 2200, a near-unchanged descendant of the nineteenth-century .22…

…In GLMZ's layered social architecture, that means it is the ammunition of mid-tier office workers who can't afford security contractors, Tessera Corponation data clerks w…

The .32 Auto Compact is a 2200-era standardization of the old .32 ACP cartridge, dimensionally nearly identical to its predecessor but loaded to tighter tole…

The .357 Auto Express is GLMZ 2200's answer to a question that has been asked since the early twenty-first century: what if you could get magnum-level perfor…

…hours, people who can afford a .357 magnum revolver and the ammunition to feed it often sleep better than those who cannot.

The .38 Service Revolver is the unbroken continuation of the .38 Special cartridge, a round that has been loaded in essentially the same dimensions since 189…

The .380 Compact Auto is the modern descendant of the 9x17mm/.380 ACP, a cartridge that spent two centuries occupying the ceiling of what a truly compact sem…

The .40 Smith Pattern takes its name not from a manufacturer — there has been no Smith & Wesson for over a century — but from the historical designation of t…

…omething heavy and kept it running through sheer necessity. Ammunition is manufactured by mid-tier outfits like Kovash Munitions and Slagworks Industrial's civilian subsi…

The .44 Service Revolver is the 2200 production designation for the cartridge family descended from the .44 Special — not the Magnum, the Special — a distinc…

Two centuries old and still in production. The .45 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge predates the GLMZ, the corponations, the BCI revolution, and most of the c…

The .45 Auto has been around long enough that arguing about it is a personality type. The 'Composite' designation refers to the updated projectile constructi…

…stroy most revolvers not specifically rated for it, and the ammunition is stamped with a GLMZ Munitions Safety Board warning in three languages and two pictograms. Modern…

…propellant formulation developed by Slagworks Industrial's ammunition division that increases muzzle velocity while reducing the brutal recoil spike — spreading it out r…

The .50 Action Express was designed from the beginning for semi-automatic pistols, which makes it an outlier in the large-bore handgun world — it was never a…

The .500 Revolver Maximum is what happens when ammunition engineers stop asking 'should we?' and commit fully to 'can we?' The round is the commercial ceilin…

…icrosurgical extraction. PMC-18 clusters are one of the few ammunition types that provoke visceral disgust even among hardened street operators. The combination of dozens…

…s and accept the magazine trade-off. Slagworks Industrial's ammunition division produces the dominant commercial load; Arcturus Defense Solutions produces a hotter contra…

…are notoriously unreliable. TCS-11 slugs are one of the few ammunition types in GLMZ that are individually serialized by the manufacturer. Each slug carries a micro-etche…

…ge before continued operation. The HSP-127 is anti-materiel ammunition in the truest sense — it is designed to destroy things that are not people, though it will destroy…

…isks cook-off, which has produced at least three documented ammunition storage fires in GLMZ's hotter districts. The SCR-127 is the ammunition of professional killers who…

…elling point and the reason the CCS-12 exists as a distinct ammunition type rather than simply using conventional shot. The ceramic also fragments aggressively on bone im…

The TNP-2 is a precision-engineered micro-dart for the NDP-4 'Stutter' platform, combining a tungsten penetrator with an embedded neural disruption payload i…

…le velocity from stage to stage without requiring different ammunition types. The ferromagnetic core is the critical component — a proprietary Tessera Corponation alloy…

…zed value. Operators who carry a GFR-3 typically budget for ammunition as their largest recurring expense, and the weapon's reputation as a 'rich operator's tool' comes a…

The 4.6mm PDW Compact was designed for a specific problem: creating a firearm small enough to be carried by people whose primary job is not shooting, but cap…

The PCA-4 is a compressed-gas-propelled micro-dart for the PFP-7 'Hairline' platform, uniquely designed not to damage the target directly but to propagate st…

…ral niche in GLMZ. The non-lethal variant is one of the few ammunition types that civilians can legally purchase in some districts, which has led to a cottage industry of…

The 5.56mm Combat Standard is the most common intermediate rifle cartridge in GLMZ 2200 by volume, which is either a testament to the round's genuine utility…

The 5.7mm High-Velocity Auto descends from the old 5.7x28mm cartridge developed in the late 20th century specifically to defeat body armor at pistol distance…

…arbine, representing the most advanced conventional-caliber ammunition in regular military procurement. Unlike traditional cartridges that rely on chemical propellant ign…

…t of sale. This tracking has made the TNA-80 one of the few ammunition types that security forces can reliably trace from crime scene to purchaser, which paradoxically ma…

…uggest. The 15-round thermally regulated magazine maintains ammunition temperature between 4 and 22 degrees Celsius, as the binary reactants become unstable above this ra…

The 9x19mm Standard is the most widely produced handgun cartridge in GLMZ 2200 and has been the dominant semi-automatic pistol round on Earth for the better …

…rsal weapon platforms as both antipersonnel and area-denial ammunition. The canister's pressurization system atomizes the chemical payload into a fine aerosol mist upon d…

The ADS-HC9 is a high-density capacitor cell manufactured by Arcturus Defense Solutions, designed for weapons platforms that require rapid energy discharge r…

…vice life by approximately 40%. Operators who fire DUF-3x22 ammunition accept this trade-off knowingly, treating the weapon as a consumable. The depleted uranium also pr…

…ning 400mL of dense hydraulic fluid, serving as the primary ammunition for hydrostatic weapons platforms that project focused columns of fluid at high velocity. The canis…

…cial effect. The CDF-12 represents the exotic end of GLMZ's ammunition spectrum — a cartridge that requires liquid helium and near-absolute-zero temperatures to function.…

The FEC-8 is a pre-loaded charge for the FESA-2 'Gravel' ferroelectric shatter sidearm, containing approximately 400 ceramic-metallic composite microbeads pe…

The HB-3 is a compact bioelectric power cell produced by Helix Biosystems, optimized for precision weapons platforms that require stable, low-noise power out…

…tching tool before loading. In theory, this allows a single ammunition type to work in any BRC-6 weapon regardless of the specific unit's resonance calibration. In pract…

…ility in humid environments and requires operators to store ammunition in desiccated containers. The MASCR-8 is among the most insidious ammunition types in GLMZ's arsena…

The BSP-72 is a specialized nutrient cartridge that sustains the biological components of bio-hybrid weapon systems — platforms that use engineered organisms…

The OE-H7 is a heavy-duty power cell manufactured by Ouroboros Energy, the corponation whose primary business is energy infrastructure rather than weapons ma…

The RC-9 is a modular power cell manufactured by Ringo Corponation, distinguished by its adaptive output management system that automatically configures volt…

…ellant for weapons designed to operate outside conventional ammunition supply chains — platforms like the NDP-4 'Stutter' and PSP-2 'Gravel' that prioritize concealabilit…

The PZO-4 is a black market modification of the legitimate PGM-4 gel micro-bead, produced by street-level armorers who replace the standard piezoelectric cry…

…to generate the extreme chamber pressures required for ETC ammunition. Unlike conventional solid propellant cartridges, the liquid formulation allows for variable-volume…

The TFW-2 is a dual-barrel cassette system for the TFP-6 'Garrote' torsional filament projector, containing 8 magnetically tipped anchor nodes connected by m…

…a standardized ferrofluid suspension cartridge used as both ammunition and working fluid in a range of exotic and cyber weapons platforms that manipulate magnetically res…

The ZD-T4 is a high-density bioelectric energy cell manufactured by Zheng-Dao Bioelectric, serving as the primary power source for a range of energy, cyber, …

…higher muzzle velocity, lower recoil, adjustable power, and ammunition that is cheaper, lighter, and more versatile than chemical cartridges. ## Operating Principle A g…