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...ter William Kostnic at Obama healthcare town hall in New Hampshire carried 9mm pistol - guardian.co.uk] The phrase "time to water the tree of liberty" - a ...l passed by the Ohio Legislature signed into law, showed up yesterday with pistols at their sides for a ''Vermilion open carry shopping day,'' which was organ

...t Model Carbine/A2 Sporter II/A2 H-BAR/A2 Delta H-BAR/A2 Delta H-Bar Match/9mm Carbine, Armalite AR-15, AAI M15, AP74, EAC J-15, PWA Commando, SGW XM15A a :* Pistols, revolvers and other handguns of designs commonly known as, including any v

...zine#Box|magazine]] (.40 S&W, .357 SIG); 15, 17, 18, or 20 round Magazine (9mm Parabellum); 10 round polymer Magazine (Classic 22 only) ...A1]], [[Browning Hi-Power]] and [[CZ 75]], the P226 (and many other modern pistols) lock the barrel and slide together using an enlarged breech section of the

...a larger number of cartridges than a [[revolver]], although semi-automatic pistols are potentially more prone to malfunctions than revolvers due to their more ...rget or hunting pistols (a notable exception being Glock-brand competition pistols such as the G34 and G35 which are DAO, yet designed with low-strength sear

...hot-pistol (a pistol designed to fire a standard shotgun shell).<ref> Such pistols, like sawed-off or short-barrelled shotguns, are illegal for private citize ...ility of [[double barreled shotgun|double-barrelled shotguns]] compared to pistols in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Australia]], coupled with the ease with whi

== Well-known semi-automatic pistols == === Semi-automatic pistols ===

...a failure to feed.<ref name="Carbine, Machine 1942">Carbine, Machine, STEN 9mm Mk II, ''General Instructions'', (February 1942)</ref> Firing the Sten by ...was made from hydraulic cylinders produced for hospital equipment. All the pistols were marked in English to disguise their origin and the production faciliti

... ''Shots Fired In Anger'', Samworth press, 1948</ref> Compared to modern [[9mm]] submachine guns, the .45 Thompson is quite heavy. By the standards of th *Wilson, R.K. (1943). ''Textbook of Automatic Pistols''. Small Arms Technical Publishing Company.

...cartridges]]. These pistols, perhaps inevitably, get called "high capacity pistols," and there are at least two companies that produce them today: [[Para Ordn ...e user can select the one most comfortable for their hand. Most production pistols come with plastic mainspring housings, while those produced by most gunsmit

...ouble-action/single-action or striker-fired – mostly in the caliber of [[9mm]]. These are the “duty guns” available from nearly every pistol maker ...ar division in 2008. Only single-stack model [[M1911 pistol|1911]]-pattern pistols are allowed in this division, and they must meet a maximum weight limit, as

* '''[http://www.gunownersresource.com/manuals/imi/IMI_Uzi.pdf UZI 9mm semi-automatic carbine]''' Instruction Manual by [[IMI]] (1.65MB .PDF file, Image:uzi9mm.jpg|Breakdown for the Uzi 9mm semi-auto pistol, no parts listing.

...ary, like the [[Walther PPK|PPK]] and the [[Walther P99|P99]] &ndash; both pistols carried by the fictional character James Bond &ndash; and the [[Walther P38 ... German Reich awarded the contract for that replacement to Walther for the 9mm [[P38]] with a weight of 960 g.

...hem quite wild-sounding) being made for the new series of fully featured [[9mm]] [[semi-automatic pistol]]s that were being introduced by so many of the w ...usive) rule, a wonder nine is a semi-automatic pistol, chambered for the [[9mm Parabellum]] [[cartridge]] and offering a number of features considered to

...quent models were [[bolt action]] rifles, and there are [[shotguns]] and [[pistols]] whose model numbers also include the "AR" prefix.<ref name="armalitehisto *[[9mm luger]]

...m Borchardt]] cartridge. The 9 mm Parabellum is commonly used in [[Handgun|pistols]], [[submachine gun]]s and [[carbine]]s. After World War I, acceptance of this caliber increased and 9 mm pistols were adopted by a number of countries.

|image= 9mm 7,62mm 357sig 10mm 45SW 45GAP 50AE 002.jpg ...as the 125 gr .357 Magnum revolver bullet. There were some semi-automatic pistols chambered for .357 Magnum, e.g., the [[Desert Eagle]] and Coonan, but due t

|image= 9mm short.jpg ...ch promotes accuracy. There have, however, been a number of locked breech pistols chambered in .380 ACP. There have also been some diminutive [[submachine g

...aces]] on the rim.<ref name="wilson">Wilson, R. K. ''Textbook of Automatic Pistols'', p.234. Plantersville, SC: Small Arms Technical Publishing Company, 1943. ...act that the .38 ACP was semi-rimmed and a trifle shorter than the rimless 9mm Largo. Europe would eventually favor the [[9 mm Luger Parabellum|9 mm Para

...gnificantly faster. All three of these are usually found in semi-automatic pistols. ...ched to the higher-capacity and faster-reloading semi-automatic pistols in 9mm Parabellum, [[.357 SIG]], [[.40 S&W]], or [[.45 ACP]]. It is still common i

...l, the K-9. In the years that followed, all manufacturers of semiautomatic pistols followed suit.