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...[.50 BMG]] and Zastava PAP in [[7.62x39mm]]. Also offered are an array of pistols, revolvers, air guns and accessories<ref>[http://www.eaacorp.com/EAACatalog ...bearing a serial number between AE00000 to AE70000. Owners of the Witness pistols in question were advised to immediately field strip the pistol and send the

...her [[trajectories]]. Hand-held firearms, like [[rifles]], [[carbines]], [[pistols]] and other small firearms are rarely called "guns" in the restricted sense ...able magazine so they can be used to fire more than one round. The [[Italy|Italian-made]] [[Mateba Autorevolver|Mateba revolver]] is a rare "hybrid," a semi-a

...(medium and smallbore rifles), FFFg (pistols), and FFFFg (smallbore, short pistols and priming [[flintlock]]s). In the [[United Kingdom]], the gunpowder grain ...ght emerged, one in [[Italy]] and the other at Nürnberg, [[Germany]]. The Italian school of pyrotechnics emphasized elaborate fireworks, and the German schoo

...oops during the battle of Caporetto. it also aided development of the next Italian submachine guns, the OVP 1918 and the Beretta 1918. It is always claimed th ...ined a well deserved reputation of accuracy and reliability. They used the Italian 9 mm model 38, a round much more powerful than the German made 9 mm Parabel

...pistol before World War II, has become one of the most popular collectors' pistols. ...Glisenti Model 1910]]''': A less-successful design which was the standard Italian sidearm in World War I. Many remained in service in World War II.

*[[Webley & Scott#Webley & Scott automatic pistols|Webley Self-Loading .455” Mark I]] (Royal Navy, since 1911, and later Roy *[[Mauser#Mauser 1910 and 1914 Pocket Pistols|Mauser 1910]]

...is article is about full auto or burst-capable pistols. For semi-automatic pistols, see [[Semi-automatic pistol]].'' ...n term for a [[submachine gun]]. While the dividing line between machine [[pistols]] and compact submachine guns is hard to draw, the term submachine gun usua

...rtridge had superior range and better penetration than most other standard pistols; the 7.63x25mm Mauser cartridge was the highest velocity commercially manuf Approximately 1 million C96 pistols were manufactured by Mauser alone,<ref> Skennerton (2005), p.8</ref> with t

... sears engaged the toe of the cock foot. The other variant was the [[Italy|Italian]] type where the mainspring pushed down on the toe of the cock foot and the ... the '''alla romana''' or '''romanlock''' or just plain '''Italian'''. The Italian version of the Spanish patilla is termed '''alla micheletta''', although se

...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 ...rel length. The sawed-off shotgun is sometimes known as a "[[Lupara]]" (in Italian a generic reference to the word "Lupo" ("Wolf")) in Southern [[Italy]] and

...in the latter stages of World War I both as improvement on earlier stocked pistols, and to offer an advantage in trench warfare. ...e. Fighting in the trenches had become a brutal battle involving grenades, pistols, sharpened entrenching tools, improvised clubs, and bayonets.

If the term is applied retroactively, the first assault rifle was the [[Italy|Italian]]-made [[Cei-Rigotti]], which was developed in the 1890s and finished aroun ...o combine an intermediate cartridge with an automatic rifle by the [[Italy|Italian]] arms company [[Beretta]] resulted in the MAB 38 (''Moschetto Automatico B

...in order to increase production of the successful [[Campo-Giro]] series of pistols, produced since 1912. Several models of which, including [[model 1913-16]], During the First World War the firm supplied the French Army and Italian Army with an estimated 150,000 [[Ruby pistol]]s, first produced in 1911 in

...o.png|200px|right]]'''Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta''' is a major [[Italy|Italian]] [[firearm]] manufacturing company. Its firearms are used world-wide by ci ...lian army fielded. Beretta manufactured [[rifle]]s and [[pistol]]s for the Italian military until the 1943 Armistice between Italy and the Allied forces durin

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 ...nersresource.com/?wpfb_dl=250 '''Beretta Series 81'''] Instruction Manual (Italian, English & French)

... 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

Similarly, some semi-automatic pistols can enjoy the same freedom from controls by following a similar pathway thr ...American gas-operated M-16 select-fire .223 calibre military rifle and the Italian blowback AP 74 .22 rimfire popgun.