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.... The United States military tested the design against other semiautomatic pistols by European makers, and adopted some versions for trial use. The M1900 and Unlike the designs of other early automatic pistols, Browning's design used a full length slide that covered the full length of

...1900]], and would transition from the 1900 into three distinct but related pistols with the same action and cartridge, the 1902 Sporting Model, the 1902 Mili ...e U.S. military enough to lead to the purchase of a few hundred Model 1900 pistols for testing, evaluation and limited field trial issue, however, the limitat

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... practiced world wide with several sanctioning organizations including the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS), Western Action Shootists Association (WASA) ...ingle-action", meaning that the hammer must be manually cocked before each shot can be fired.<ref name="GD">Taffin, John (2005). ''The Gun Digest Book of C

... has an 8-shot cylinder in .38 caliber, and the [[LeMat Revolver]] has a 9 shot cylinder. Several models of .22 rimfire caliber revolvers have cylinders ho ...evolvers using this method of loading are [[Trigger#Single action .28SA.29|single action]] revolvers.

...eloader|muzzleloading]] pistol; with the advent of [[cartridge]] firearms, pistols began to be produced in the modern form still known as a "derringer". [[Image:COP patent 4407085.png|thumb|left|Clip of the four shot COP derringer patent 4,407,085]]

...ansonic]] and [[subsonic]] flight regimes BC is not well approximated by a single constant, but is considered to be a function ''BC(M)'' of the Mach number M ...the bore. The test results were obtained from many shots not just a single shot. The bullet was assigned 1.062 for its BC number by the bullet's manufactur

...oving cases either singly (as in a fixed-cylinder [[Revolver#Single_action|single action]] revolver) or all at once (as in a [[Revolver#Double_action|double ...ber. This situation is encountered on some single shot rifles and on some single and double-barreled shotguns.

...pped from the wing of the exit craft. The German parachute harness, with a single strap attached to the body making the paratrooper land on his hands and kne ...ot be significantly heavier than the Kar 98k rifle, should be able to fire single shots from a [[closed bolt]], provide fully-automatic from an [[open bolt]]

... [[M240 machine gun|M240]] medium machine guns, [[FN FNP series|FNP series pistols]] and [[M2 machine gun]]s. *[[FN Model 1910|FN M1910]]:single action pistol chambered for [[.32 ACP]](7.65 x 17 mm) and [[.380 ACP]](9 x

...uch as the 5.56x45mm NATO, or 7.62x39mm), which along with fully automatic pistols, provided the pre-cursor for the term "assault weapon." ...a [[Trigger#Single action .28SA.29|double-action]] revolver also fires one shot for each trigger pull but is not considered "semi-automatic" since the forc

A '''firearm''' is a device that can be used as a weapon that fires either single or multiple [[projectile]]s propelled at high velocity by the gases produce ...S BATFE]], consider any firearm which dispenses more than one round with a single manipulation of the [[trigger|firing device]] to be a "machine gun" for reg

...rms, though the types used in landmines, bombs, [[grenade]] fuzes or other single-use devices generally have a sharpened point. In contrast, firing pins used ...s that do not have bolts, such as [[revolver]]s and many types of [[single-shot]] actions, generally have a very short firing pin in the frame, or else att

...g [[black powder]] shooting enthusiasts and many fine flintlock rifles and pistols are being made today. ...spread out in a 180 degree fan. All barrels fired at the same time, with a single lock. Known as a "Duck Foot" because of the resemblance in shape, they were

Powder charge: single base [[nitrocellulose]] weighing 2.75 grams (42.5 grains) with a powder cha ===Pistols and shotguns===

...round was a hand-made [[hollow point bullet]] filled with No. 12 [[shotgun#Shot|birdshot]] (0.05") in liquid Teflon with a flat polymer cap. To improve ba ...orts indicate that Air Marshals are now issued [[SIG P226|SIG-Sauer P229]] pistols with a 12 round capacity firing conventional jacketed hollow point ammuniti

...ast 100mm (3.94") long for revolvers, and 120mm (4.72") for semi-automatic pistols, and magazines are restricted to 10 rounds. Handgun collectors are exempt f All single-shot muzzleloading firearms manufactured before 1 January 1901 are considered an

...st not be easily stolen. If an especially dangerous firearm or more than 5 pistols, revolvers or [[self-loading]] rifles or other-type firearms are being stor '''Pistols''' are firearms with a total length of less than 840 mm and a barrel length

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...(medium and smallbore rifles), FFFg (pistols), and FFFFg (smallbore, short pistols and priming [[flintlock]]s). In the [[United Kingdom]], the gunpowder grain ...' text of the 14th century also describes hollow, gunpowder-packed [[round shot|exploding cannonballs]].<ref name="needham volume 5 part 7 264">Needham, Vo