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....32]] calibre. The handgun categories include approximately half of the [[revolvers]] and [[pistols]] owned in [[Canada]]. There are specific provisions liste

== Mini revolvers == ...ocket revolvers, the major difference being the size and the fact the mini-revolvers are made completely of stainless steel.<ref>http://naaminis.com/index01.htm

...Beach, San Diego, California, where citizens carrying unloaded pistols and revolvers were subjected to Section 12031(e) inspections of their firearms on demand

...vided far more velocity and energy in the rifles, but were not safe in the revolvers due to the higher pressures they generated. These loads were eventually dr ...can use +P ammunition; for example, many aluminum alloy framed .38 Special revolvers should not regularly be used with +P ammunition, for while the cylinder is

===Nitrated cartridges for percussion revolvers=== ...as they load from the front of the cylinder. Typical paper cartridges for revolvers differ from the robust percussion rifle cartridges, in that the cartridge i

...ruding [[firing pin]]. This feature was particularly popular with pinfire revolvers.

...wer compared to [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] and other percussion revolvers. Some navies also adopted them, "sea service" examples often being made out ...a [[magazine (firearm)|magazine]]. Nevertheless the last practical pinfire revolvers were manufactured around 1890, but by then they were an anachronism.

...aged and reused numerous times if a suitable backstop is used. For use in revolvers, [[.38 Special]] and [[.44 Special]] versions also include plastic cases, w

...till retaining moderate amounts of popularity, short-barreled ("snubnose") revolvers are similarly not as widely used as pocket pistols today as they were durin

... 2, Sect. II, US Army Field Manual 23-25, ''Combat Training With Pistols & Revolvers'' The following is from US Patent 694,969, "Finger Guard for Revolvers", A. A. Kemp, 1902

:* Pistols, revolvers and other handguns of designs commonly known as, including any variants or

...barreled shotguns]], and concealable firearms that are neither pistols nor revolvers.) This means that powerheads may still be under the authority of the 1968 G

... the '''body''' of the firearm, and especially in the context of handguns (revolvers and pistols) it is often called the '''frame'''. It is often made of forged

...al (2008). ''Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers to Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History.'' TwoDot. pp

...5.jpg|thumb|The '''[[Colt Single Action Army]]''', one of the most popular revolvers of all time]] The first revolvers were partly an attempt to improve on [[pepper-box]] type weapons, which use

...]. Rimmed cartridges are well suited to certain types of actions, such as revolvers, where the rim helps hold the cartridge in position, and break-open [[sing Rimless straight walled cases are problematic in applications such as magnum revolvers and break-open single shot firearms, where headspacing off the case mouth p

... a [[revolver]] holding five or six rounds in the cylinder. Unlike normal revolvers, the cylinder of a revolving riot gun is too massive to be turned easily by