If you aren't familiar with it, Rock Island Armory makes a bolt action rifle in a very obscure cartridge called .22 TCM. What makes the cartridge notable is that it's a .22 caliber projectile but in a bottlenecked case short enough to fit into a pistol magazine like the 1911. I won't go over performance metrics but it beats .22 Mag from a rifle by around 900 fps. That's not really the amazing part.
Many years ago, the smart guys at Special Interest Arms offered services to convert one of these rifles to 9mm Parabellum. By the time I had found out about them, I wasn't able to get them. It's partly why I wanted to get on the Rhineland Arms .45 ACP conversion kit for my Mauser 1893.
Anyway, the Armscor/RIA rifles are back. Sadly, SIA is gone and the supplies dried up in 2019 but someone could take up the mantle. That said, a good gunsmith should be able to figure it out.
If you're interested in a 9mm bolt action rifle for suppressed fun, make some noise because I would like to see the Novem return!
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