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my guess as others have said is that the rounds were not resized properly when reloaded. it happens if you have a tight chamber in a pistol, and a sizing die not screwed down all the way.
one option if you have a press is to buy a Lee Factory Crimp die ($12). it's got a carbide sizer on it and sometimes it will get that little extra bit of diameter off the round and allow it to chamber.
maybe see if you can find someone with a cartridge gauge and see if the bullets drop into it. or take your barrel out and just drop a few rounds into the barrel. they should seat all the way into the barrel. if they don't you have a problem. resize them and try it again. or keep the ones that drop into the barrel they should be fine, sell the others to someone who wants to pull them apart and use the brass and bullets.
could be that your pistol has a tight chamber compared to say a glock.
From what I recall, 9mm is a rather strange straight-wall case: the case is somewhat tapered with the base being a "little" larger than the rest of the body.
So, the foregoing may just do the trick ... but don't forget to remove the crimp sleeve in the body of the crimper die. Otherwise you just may create more problems!
The Lee Bulge Buster is designed to work with a Lee Crimp Die body of the same caliber. I use it on my .40 S&W Brass with good success
While I haven't done so yet ... It is my understanding that you can push loaded ammo through it with no problem.
Just be advised that the ammo is pushed through "nose-up" as the ram has an indention to
keep it away from properly set primers. Worrysome is the fact that the nose may be sticking its "snout" into the primer of
a previously pushed through round !!!
That said, I would be careful of the amount of force that you use!
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