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(circle) 9mm Rimfire ammunition, 9mm Parabellum cartridge shown for size comparison. Top row, left to right:RWS shotshell, brass/paper construction; Winchester shotshell, brass/paper construction; Fiocchi brass shotshell. Bottom row, left to right: Remington ball cap; RWS ball cap; Fiocchi conical bullet cap.

“You collect 9mm what?”

I get that a lot when the subject of collections comes up. I have been collecting (accumulating, really) 9mm rimfire firearms for about twenty years now. There are seventeen resting in my safe at this time. Many American shooters have never heard of a 9mm rimfire shotgun. They were made as inexpensive “garden guns” and will be found in a variety of action types and makers. While Winchester is the only U.S company that ever made a 9mm shotgun, the Model 36, many famous European gun makers have offered them at one time or another. Most that we see were brought to the U.S. by immigrants or by US servicemen returning from the World Wars.

The name most commonly associated with the 9mm RF guns is “Flobert,” and many sellers describe these guns as such. But a bolt-action or a break-open gun is not a Flobert; a gun may fire a Flobert cartridge and still not be properly termed a Flobert. Flobert was credited with patenting the rimfire cartridge and there is a specific action design that bears his name.