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...ound-force (582 J) energy.<ref name = "Smith">Smith, WHB (1968). ''Book of Pistols and Revolvers''. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books.</ref>
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...ntally firing both shells into the air. Stoudenmire quickly pulled out his pistols and fired at Johnson eight times, '''severing his testicles''' (holy shit!)
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... low-velocity [[pistol]]s and [[shotgun]]s, medium-rate powders for magnum pistols and light [[rifle]] rounds, and slow powders for large-bore heavy rifle rou
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...''Reihenfeuerpistolen'', literally "row-fire pistols" or "consecutive fire pistols") were conducted. Among those the Luger pistol (German Army designation '''
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...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
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...dguns, the term "automatic" is commonly used to distinguish semi-automatic pistols from [[revolver]]s. The term "auto-loader" may also be used to describe a s
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...utomatic, full-automatic, and single-shot rifles; shotguns; semi-automatic pistols; and single-action and double-action revolvers.
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...in the latter stages of World War I both as improvement on earlier stocked pistols, and to offer an advantage in trench warfare.
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...ciency. One disposable type developed in the 1980s by the US Navy for 9 mm pistols is 150 x 45 mm (5.9 x 1.77 in) and is designed for six shots with standard
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...ring the higher score, fractions of an inch are important. In magazine fed pistols, the square shape of a wadcutter will often not feed reliably. To address t
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...d instance of the weapon being used for their intended purpose. Many FP-45 pistols were never distributed and were destroyed by Allied forces after the war; a
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a) Shotguns and smooth-bored guns, including shot pistols, chambered for standard shot gun cartridges, .22 inch, .23 inch, 6mm and 9m
c) Revolvers, single-shot pistols and self-loading pistols which are chambered for, and will accept, popular center-fire cartridges of
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=== Pistols ===
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...barrel (18-inch) provided the carbine with higher [[muzzle velocity]] than pistols and submachine guns chambered for the same .30 round. (The .30 Carbine rou
.... Within a certain range of ballistic conditions, the lighter 5.56 mm and 5.45 mm will, upon striking tissue, first tumble and then fragment. Beyond 100 y
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...in order to increase production of the successful [[Campo-Giro]] series of pistols, produced since 1912. Several models of which, including [[model 1913-16]],
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*Gotz, Hans Dieter, ''German Military Rifles and Machine Pistols, 1871-1945'', Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1990. [
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...n the Colt Vest Pocket pistol. Parts are not interchangeable between these pistols.<ref>[http://www.fn-browning.com/fn.htm FN-Browning historical site]</ref>
...its and the above mentioned custom built pistols, all of the Baby Browning pistols were finished in hot blue. The halt to exports to the USA in 1968 was dicta
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Generally the term "smallbore" refers to rifles or pistols whose barrel bore diameter is at the small end of the scale (.170" to .399"
Rifles, revolvers and semi-auto pistols in calibre .22 rimfire are popular all over the world for small game huntin
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... the American Civil War, bayonet blades were even affixed to single-shot [[pistols]], although they soon proved useless for anything but cooking. Cutlasses re
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...ingle-action [[revolvers]], double-action revolvers, and semi-automatic [[pistols]]. The parent company, Beretta Holding, also owns Beretta USA, [[Benelli]],
...actory, in Accokeek, Maryland, manufactures military, police, and civilian pistols.
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The last production models of .32 ACP and .380 ACP Cheetah pistols were in the '''FS''' configuration (e.g. ''81FS''). In models 81, 82, 84 a
*[http://www.beretta.com/Pistols-Carbines/Defence/Compact/index.aspx?m=82&idc=14 Official Beretta Cheetah pa
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... early 2006, the JCP was renamed ''Combat Pistol'' (CP), and the number of pistols to be bought was drastically cut back. The joint U.S. Army/Air Force [[Modu
...m combat, has necessitated American soldiers to rely more heavily on their pistols.<ref>Zidock, Alex. "[http://books.google.com/books?id=4eMDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA40
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...tte Manufacturing, Inc.], maker of BFAs for [[machine gun]]s and [[M1911]] pistols
...firing conversions for [[Semi-automatic self-loading pistol|semi-automatic pistols]]
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...ers, in movies that require gun fights, and in [[Starting pistol|starter's pistols]] to signal the beginning of races. Blanks used by the military are usuall
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...[[Volkssturmgewehr 1-5]] rifle, the [[Heckler & Koch P7]] and [[Steyr GB]] pistols.
...the bullet had left the barrel long before any locking could occur; Savage pistols merely operated on a pure blowback basis.
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Some pistols are bolt action, although this is uncommon, and such examples are typically
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...irearms, such as the popular [[Thompson Center Arms]] Contender and Encore pistols. The simplicity of the break open design, especially external hammer types
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...t of the way and at the same time ready for instant use. I could shoot the pistols — though I never had to — without drawing them, just as one shoots out
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: '''NOTE:''' Certain Browning [[long guns]] and [[pistols]] used wood that was salt-cured, causing a rusting problem to the undersid
===Pistols===
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...ale de Herstal|FN]] (a company that had already produced Browning-designed pistols) starting in 1902. Browning would later license the design to Remington, wh
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...such as the [[Luger pistol|Luger]] or [[Mauser#Mauser 1910 and 1914 Pocket Pistols|Mauser 1910]]. The Hi-Power had the first functional double-column magazine
...ower has undergone continuous refinement by FN since its introduction. The pistols were originally made in two models: an "Ordinary Model" with fixed sights a
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