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|type= [[semi-automatic]] [[plinking]] [[pistol]] ...'''Colt Woodsman''' is a [[Semi-automatic pistol|semi-automatic]] sporting pistol manufactured by the American [[Colt's Manufacturing Company]] from 1915 to

}}The '''G36''' is a [[Germany|German]] [[5.56x45mm NATO|5.56 mm]] [[assault rifle]], designed in the early 1990s ...e]] chambered for the NATO-standard 5.56 mm cartridge led H&K to offer the German armed forces the G41 rifle, which too was declined. Design work was then in

|name= United States Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911. |image= M1911 Pistol US.jpg

...ers and [[mortar]] crews) found the full-size rifles too cumbersome, and [[pistol]]s and [[revolver]]s to be insufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine ...d that a new weapon was needed for these other roles. While the range of a pistol is about 50 yards and the range of existing rifles was several hundred yard

...e:T44.jpg|thumb|right|The experimental T-44 machine gun developed from the German [[FG42]] and [[MG42]] machine guns.]] ...ded features that had been successful on earlier designs (most notably the German [[MG42]]), as well as improvements of its own. It was intended to replace

...nition used is intended for use in [[side arm]]s (chiefly [[semi-automatic pistol]]s) or rifles; the difference between machine guns and autocannons is based ...ly automatic firearms using pistol-caliber ammunition are called [[machine pistol]]s or submachine guns largely on the basis of size. [[Selective fire]] rifl

[[Image:recoil operation key.png|thumb|right|300px|Key for recoil operation diagrams.]] The short recoil action dominates the world of [[centerfire]] [[automatic pistol]]s, being found on nearly all of [[9 x 19 mm]] or greater caliber. Short r

|type= [[Semi-automatic pistol]] }}The '''SIG P226''' is a full-sized, service-type pistol made by [[SIG Sauer]]. It is chambered for the [[9x19mm Parabellum]], [[.40

|variants= Chinese SKS; Yugoslavian PAP; Romanian SKS; Albanian SKS; East German SKS; (North) Vietnamese SKS; North Korean SKS The SKS has a conventional [[carbine]] layout, with a wooden stock and no pistol grip. Most versions are fitted with an integral folding bayonet which hinge

...nt models, from all steel skeleton and tubular stocks to wooden stocks and pistol grips. The sights were fixed, consisting of a rear peep and front blade, ze ...he German Erma MP38/[[MP40]], originally in order to facilitate the use of German 9 mm magazines.<ref>Dunlap, Roy F., ''Ordnance Went Up Front'', Samworth Pr

|type= [[submachine gun]] / [[machine pistol]] ...bmachine gun]]s. Smaller variants are more accurately considered [[machine pistol]]s.

...ire for 12 hours onto a selected area 2,000 yards away in order to prevent German troops forming up there for a counter-attack while a British attack was in ... was obsolete in [[1944]]. Firing either single shot or automatic it had a pistol type trigger grip rather than the [[spade grip|spades]] of the 0.303.

[[Image:RK 72 MPi-KM Rifle.jpg|thumb|right|The [[East Germany|East German]] MPi-KM version of the AKM.]] ...he use a different folding stock, the use of plastic for the handguard and pistol grip rather than wood and a modified upper receiver that accepts most [[Uni

...in later years were subsequently issued a collapsible stock version of the German [[Heckler & Koch G3]] rifle.<ref>Pikula, Sam (Major), ''The ArmaLite AR-10' ...ms]] ASA .308, Fulton Armory Titan, RND Manufacturing's "The Edge" and the German Oberland Arms OA-10.

|type= [[Semi-automatic pistol]] ...]], [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[semi-automatic firearm|semi-automatic]] [[pistol]]. It is based on ideas conceived and patented in 1922 by American firearms