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John O'Brien

John O'Brien may refer to:

American

 * John O'Brien (Ohio politician) (1932–1985), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
 * John D. O'Brien, state senator in the 1997–1998 Massachusetts legislature
 * John F. O'Brien (secretary of state) (c. 1850–1927), Secretary of State of New York, 1903–1906
 * John F. O'Brien (judge) (1874–1939), New York Court of Appeals judge
 * John H. O'Brien, 4th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York
 * John J. O'Brien (civil servant) (1919–2001), investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
 * John J. O'Brien (commissioner), former commissioner of the Massachusetts Probation Service
 * John P. O'Brien (1873–1951), 98th mayor of New York City
 * John L. O'Brien (1911–2007), American politician in the Washington House of Representatives

Irish

 * John O'Brien (bishop) (died 1767), Irish Bishop of Cork and Cloyne
 * John O'Brien (Irish politician) (1794–1855), MP for Limerick City in the UK Parliament 1841–1852
 * John O'Brien (priest) (1931–2008), Irish Roman Catholic priest and musician
 * John Thomond O'Brien (1786–1861), Irish soldier in the Argentine War of Independence
 * Joseph O'Sullivan, who assumed the name "John O'Brien" while under arrest for the 1922 assassination of Sir Henry Wilson

British

 * John O'Brien (British politician) (died 1982), far right figure, onetime leader of the British National Front
 * Sir Terence O'Brien (colonial administrator) (John Terence Nicholls O'Brien, 1830–1904), British surveyor, engineer and colonial governor

Canadian

 * John O'Brien (admiral) (1918–1996), commander of the Royal Canadian Navy
 * John O'Brien (Canadian politician) (1847–1917), merchant and member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

New Zealand

 * John O'Brien (New Zealand politician) (1925–1990), New Zealand political candidate and party leader

Australian

 * John O'Brien (Australian politician) (1866–1932), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
 * John O'Brien (Australian Army officer) (1908–1980), Australian major general and Mayor of Woollahra

Baseball

 * John O'Brien (outfielder) (1851–1914), baseball outfielder
 * John O'Brien (second baseman) (1866–1913), baseball infielder
 * Johnny O'Brien (born 1930), 1950's baseball second baseman
 * Cinders O'Brien (John F. O'Brien, 1867–1892), baseball pitcher

Footballers

 * John O'Brien (Dublin footballer), senior inter-county Gaelic footballer for Dublin and Round Towers, Clondalkin
 * John O'Brien (Louth footballer) (born 1985), Gaelic footballer for Louth
 * John O'Brien (soccer) (born 1977), American soccer player
 * Jon O'Brien (born 1961), English footballer

Other sports

 * John O'Brien (basketball, born 1888) (1888–1967), American basketball referee and executive
 * John O'Brien (basketball, born 1916) (1916–1994), American professional basketball player in the 1940s
 * John O'Brien (boxer) (1937–1979), Scottish boxer of the 1960s and '70s
 * John O'Brien (cricketer, born 1961), English cricketer
 * John O'Brien (Irish cricketer) (1866–1920), Irish cricketer
 * John O'Brien (hurler) (born 1982), Irish hurler
 * John O'Brien (rower) (1927–1995), New Zealand representative rower
 * John O'Brien (tennis) (born 1932), Australian tennis player and hostage in the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis
 * John O'Brien (water polo) (1931–2020), Australian Olympic water polo player
 * John Ambrose O'Brien (1885–1968), founding owner of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team
 * John O'Brien (businessman), British businessman

Other people

 * John O'Brien (marine artist) (1831–1891), Canadian marine artist
 * John O'Brien, the original name of stage actor John T. Raymond (1836–1887)
 * John O'Brien (poet) (1878–1952), Australian priest, poet and author
 * John B. O'Brien (1884–1936), American actor and director
 * John O'Brien (publisher), Irish American publisher and academic
 * John O'Brien (novelist) (1960–1994), American author
 * John O'Brien (filmmaker) (born 1962), Vermont film director
 * John O'Brien (advocate), disability inclusion advocate and writer
 * John O'Brien (screenwriter), screenwriter of Fireflies and K-9
 * John Roger O'Brien (1903–1982), birth name of Jack O'Brien (jazz pianist)

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.32 S&W Long

The .32 S&W Long / 7.65x23mmR, is a straight-walled, centerfire, rimmed handgun cartridge, based on the earlier .32 S&W cartridge. It was introduced in 1896 for Smith & Wesson's first-model Hand Ejector revolver. Colt called it the .32 Colt New Police in revolvers it made chambered for the cartridge.

History
The .32 S&W Long was introduced in 1896 with the company's first hand ejector revolver. The .32 Long is simply a lengthened version of the earlier .32 S&W. The hand ejector design has evolved some, but with its swing out cylinder on a crane, has been the basis for every S&W revolver designed since. In 1896, the cartridge was loaded with black powder. In 1903 the small hand ejector was updated with a new design. The cartridge stayed the same, but was now loaded with smokeless powder to roughly the same chamber pressure.

When he was the New York City Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt standardized the department's use of the Colt New Police revolver. The cartridge was then adopted by several other northeastern U.S. police departments. The .32 Long is well known as an unusually accurate cartridge. This reputation led Police Commissioner Roosevelt to select it as an expedient way to increase officers' accuracy with their revolvers in New York City. The Colt company referred to the .32 S&W Long cartridge as the .32 "Colt's New Police" cartridge, concurrent with the conversion of the Colt New Police revolver from .32 Long Colt. The cartridges are functionally identical with the exception that the .32 NP cartridge has been historically loaded with a flat nosed bullet as opposed to the round nose of the .32 S&W Long.

Current use
In the United States, it is usually older revolvers which are chambered in this caliber. The cartridge has mostly fallen out of use due to smaller revolvers chambered in .38 Special being more effective for self-defense. The cartridge is widely used internationally, particularly in countries like India that restrict the calibers available to civilian firearms owners. Revolvers are still produced in this caliber in South America, South Asia, and Eastern Europe.

The .32 S&W Long is popular among international competitors in ISSF 25 meter center-fire pistol, using high-end target pistols from makers such as Pardini Arms, Morini, Hämmerli, Benelli, and Walther, among others, but chambered for wadcutter bullet type. The sporting variant of the Manurhin MR 73, also known as MR 32, is also chambered in .32 S&W Long.

The IOF .32 Revolver manufactured by the Ordnance Factories Organization in India for civilian licence holders is chambered for this cartridge.

Interchangeability
The .32 S&W Long headspaces on the rim and shares the rim dimensions and case and bullet diameters of the shorter .32 S&W cartridge and the longer .32 H&R Magnum and .327 Federal Magnum cartridges. The shorter .32 S&W may be fired in handguns chambered for the .32 S&W Long; and the .32 S&W Long may be fired in arms chambered for the longer .32 H&R and .327 Federal magnums; although the longer cartridges should not fit and must not be fired in arms designed for the shorter and less powerful cartridges.

The .32 S&W Long and .32 Long Colt are not interchangeable. At one time it was widely publicized that these rounds would interchange, but in truth it has never been deemed safe to do so.

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