If a word or phrase is used as a generic term for something, what law mandates that people using such a term must stop and switch to another term for the same thing?
I guess I'm aware of some such rules imposed my liberals when a particular concept becomes politically incorrect. But why should conservatives play such games?
While the most popular .45 cartridge is usable in a lot of guns besides the original Automatic Colt Pistol, so too is the popular 9x19mm round usable in a lot of guns besides the Luger. Indeed, I suspect the percentage of .45 ammo used in Automatic Colt Pistols or clones thereof is much greater than the percentage of 9mm ammo used in Lugers or clones of those.
SAAMI is free to impose whatever labeling requirements they want on firearm or ammo manufacturers, but that doesn't mean others writing about firearms are bound to comply. Call it "civil disobedience" if you want.
That is just one of the reasons the formal name was changed the 45 Auto prior to WWII.
“SAAMI is free to impose whatever labeling requirements they want on firearm or ammo manufacturers….”
The American Nation Standards Institute (ANSI), in conjunction with the Sporting Arms and Manufactures Institute (SAAMI) establish formal names and formal abbreviations for SAAMI member cartridges. Period! Not gun writers or uninformed shooters. IT IS THE HEADSTAMP AND BARREL MARKINGS, STUPID! Look at them. (and please don’t waste your time by using foreign imports to buttress your lame argument.
“Whoever designed the cartridge (or has rights of it) has the final say.” Wrong. SAAMI/ANSI has the final say.
“So, the name originally developed for the cartridge is no longer valid?
That is correct. The same is true for a host of other cartridges including 6mm Rem, 25 WCF, 30 WCF, 32 WCF, 38 WCF, 44 WCF, 22 Rem Spl, 7mm Rem Express, 30 USA, 30G1906, 38 Colt Special, 38 S&W Special, 357 S&W Magnum, etceteras. It is just as inappropriate to use an obsolete cartridge name, as it is to address someone’s wife by her maiden name. Practice either displays ignorance or malice.
“I guess I'm just not up on all the latest fads.” No, your are about 70 years behind the times.
Give it up. It is gone.