When is the earliest the US Military could have adopted the 9mm?

How exactly can one train their hands to not hurt like a mofo after repeatedly shooting a 10 mm Auto? How can one train not to flinch when their hands hurt like a mofo but they have to keep shooting?

These are valid issues for people with small and/or delicate hands. On average, women tend to have smaller and more delicate hands compared to men. I don't see what's sexist about it.
 
I think that the sexist matter is referring to 'women' rather than 'those with small hands'. Most women indeed have smaller hands than most men but some women have larger hands than most men and some men have smaller hands than most women.

I don't imagine that you were intending any denigration of women but merely choosing an inaccurate choice of words. The issue is not about pain and flinching but the control of the weapon and the ease of re-aiming after each shot. Again my model is the British decision that the average pistol user would be better able to repeatedly hit an opponent/s with a .380 Revolver MkIIz than a full size .455 Webley MkVI. But then I may be influenced by the propensity of the ancient Browning L9A1 pistols to fall apart from excessive wear from time to time in my past days.
 
How exactly can one train their hands to not hurt like a mofo after repeatedly shooting a 10 mm Auto? How can one train not to flinch when their hands hurt like a mofo but they have to keep shooting?

These are valid issues for people with small and/or delicate hands. On average, women tend to have smaller and more delicate hands compared to men. I don't see what's sexist about it.

And that's the sexist part. 10mm Auto was simply too powerful for even the average male officers (with supposedly bigger and sturdy hands) to properly train for within a given amount of time. Given that most of the force wouldn't be qualified to hold a pistol with this ammo, does it make sense for it to be a general purpose ammo for the force?

You're blaming a general problem on a specific gender. That's why I said "borderline," since your basic premise was entirely wrong from the start.
 
How exactly can one train their hands to not hurt like a mofo after repeatedly shooting a 10 mm Auto? How can one train not to flinch when their hands hurt like a mofo but they have to keep shooting?

These are valid issues for people with small and/or delicate hands. On average, women tend to have smaller and more delicate hands compared to men. I don't see what's sexist about it.
I'm male and have small hands. I carried and fired the Glock 20 and 29 without problems and fired quite literally thousands of rounds from both.
The "small hands" argument, and the "women can't handle 10mm Auto" are complete rubbish.
 

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I do not think anyone in the early 1900s relised that 9mm would become the pistol round of choices Germany used 9mm luger UK used.455 webley and the US chose. 45ACP I am sure the French used yet anther size. But as the 20th century marched on most military changed to 9mm
 
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