 Rock Island Armory AL 9.0. Hey there friends thanks for checking in. At the range now we've got the Rock Island Armory 9 millimeter revolver called the AL 9.0. It's a six-shot revolver that takes moon clips for the 9 millimeter rounds. You don't need moon clips but it sure helps when ejecting. It has a three inch barrel, ramped up front sight, adjustable rear sight, neat rubber grip that is very comfortable and a single action trigger pull that breaks just over four pounds. A nice all-around package and I've really enjoyed owning this revolver but the question here is and it's something that was highly asked when I did my initial review was will this fire the smaller 380 ACP and that's what we're going to establish today. Now I noticed immediately that the moon clip does not hold on to the 380 ACP very well. I'm going to show that. See how the 9 millimeter round fits in nice and tight and the 380 it's just very loose you can pull it out you know and okay so kind of expected that not to be this loose though but I kind of expected it a little different in the case but we're gonna load it up with these right here this is federal 95 grain 380 ACP and see how well it fires if it fires at all. This is my first time doing this so we are doing this together so let's load it up. It needs those moon clips because without those I am convinced that the headspace is not enough there to make contact with the hammer upon its drop so I'm gonna go ahead and shut it now once again 380 ACP federal 95 grain target loads we'll start out by single action and see what happens here. Alright that worked kind of comfortable. Miss that target and it hit the rabbit and I do believe that is it so there is no question that this will fire 380 ACP. Now you can see when I took this out that all the shells just fell out of there but let's try it without the moon clip I have the revolver loaded up with 9 millimeter with no moon clip alright you can see it does not grab the case I guess it touched a few of them but it did not eject the case so let's go ahead and see how well this fires without the moon clip single action here we were able to see that it fired all of them without the moon clip I can shake it out a little bit and I've got two stuck in there so what do you do when you have rounds stuck in the cylinder you grab a little stick huh see that planned and advanced just for that alright so now we're gonna try the 380 without the moon clip this is a different round this is max-tech 95 grain target loads alright we're gonna go ahead and load those this is the part that I said I don't believe there is enough headspace but I may be wrong we're doing this live on video I have not done this yet I actually don't have much 380 in my supply and that needs to change I don't think there's enough headspace but I may be wrong but now we've got 380 ACP in there and no I am not pointing this barrel toward me all right but you can see that it sits very flush let's see if it works we'll start with the tombstone and it does not now I have the max-tech loaded up in the moon clip if you think about it that moon clip just raises that headspace very little but enough to make this function with 380 ACP let's see how it goes all right so for some reason the federal worked and the max-tech does not work but each of them have primer strikes I'm gonna take a picture with my phone because I'm pretty certain that it will not show check this out guys picture with phone pretty certain it will not show and I'll dub this picture in there well why not try to continually beat it with the hammer we know it's striking the primer let's see what happens oh I got four out of six so I think we got our answer the Rock Island AL 9.0 was able to shoot 380 ACP it fired the federal no problem 95 grain target loads of 380 it did not work well with the max-tech now I am told max-tech is not great ammo and that it has real hard primers I don't think it should make that big of a difference especially with a revolver so the answer is that it will fire 380 ACP given the right ammo and it is inconsistent but it was actually more accurate than I thought it would be so I hope that helps the 380 will work with moon clips in the Rock Island and I have to believe other 9 millimeter revolvers and if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe