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...09 and later did away with the front bushing, and would become the [[M1911 pistol]].<ref name=blue>S. P. Fjestad. ''Blue Book of Gun Values, 26th Ed..'' Blue
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...etained the Sporting model grip frame. The [[Colt Model 1905]] [[.45 ACP]] pistol would be derived from the same lineage, also with a different serial number
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...inued its production twice, but brought it back due to popular demand. The pistol was popular with ranchers, lawmen, and outlaws alike, but current models ar
... Its original moniker was the "New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol".<ref name="Taylor">Taylor, Chuck (1981). Complete Book Of Combat Handgunni
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... hunting shotguns. Most combat shotguns have tubular magazines to hold the cartridges, mounted underneath the barrel, identical to those of hunting shotguns exce
...ock (depending on the sights on the gun), and 10 when equipped only with a pistol grip due to the difficulty in accurately aiming without a full stock. Slug
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... advantage of having a single firearm that can fire both rifle and shotgun cartridges is that a single gun can be used to hunt a very wide variety of game, from
... 16ga, although they were chambered in a wide variety of rifle and shotgun cartridges.
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...e sold to consumers. The same applies for cartridges, at regular interval, cartridges are tested at the C.I.P. accredited [[Proof House]]s.
...ing of the tested firearm. For example aspects like the correct cycling of cartridges etc. are not part of the proofing process.
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...s to use single action [[revolver]]s, lever action [[rifle]]s chambered in pistol calibers, and side-by-side double barrel [[shotgun]]s. Single Action Semiau
The typical event requires two single action revolvers loaded with five blank-cartridges. Ten targets are arranged in a horseback riding arena. When the competitor
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...b|Close up of the cylinder on a [[Webley Revolver|Webley Mk VI]] [[service pistol|service revolver]]]]
...eing referred to as "sixguns"), but some small frame revolvers only hold 5 cartridges, due to the smaller overall size of the gun and reduced space availability.
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...al [[Philadelphia Deringer]] made by Henry Deringer. This was the [[pocket pistol]] used by John Wilkes Booth in the Abraham Lincoln Assassination]]
... original Deringer pistol was a single shot [[Muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] pistol; with the advent of [[cartridge]] firearms, pistols began to be produced in
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The American gun market produced several famous dangerous game cartridges around this time, such as the [[.458 Winchester Magnum]], [[.378 Weatherby
*[[Howdah pistol]]
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...an be measured in tens of feet within the accurate range of many [[rifle]] cartridges, so knowledge of the flight characteristics of the bullet and the distance
...or [[rifle]] bullets, this will probably be a [[supersonic]] velocity, for pistol bullets it will be probably be [[subsonic]]. For projectiles that travel th
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...[[ejectors]], only extractors, requiring the user to manually remove spent cartridges. In this situation the extractor pulls the case out of the chamber far eno
... a flip-up barrel and lack of extractor on a Beretta Bobcat semi-automatic pistol]]
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...onjunction with the [[5.7x28mm]] cartridge. FN's goal was to replace the [[pistol]]-caliber submachine guns which were in use at the time by military and law
... allowed it to be used more conveniently in the 5.7x28mm [[FN Five-seven]] pistol, which was under development at that time.<ref name="gunzonetimeline1990">[
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...s used in a [[muzzle-loader|muzzle-loading]] firearm such as a [[musket]], pistol, or cannon. Sometimes for convenience a suitable amount of powder and a bul
...rrel or grip and strike someone with the butt, which is informally called "pistol-whipping".
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...[Glock]], [[M2 Browning machine gun]], [[MG42]], Ceska Zbrojovka [[Vz. 52 (pistol)|Vz 52]], [[M82 Barrett rifle|M82]]
...coil''' - Browning Automatic Shotgun, Femaru STOP Pistol, [[Mars Automatic Pistol]]
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...firearm.jpg|thumb| Failure to eject (FTE, "stovepipe") in a semi-automatic pistol.]]
...], that when a worn firearm malfunctions in such a way as to fire multiple cartridges one or more times, this makes it a [[machine gun]], causing legal liability
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...nt cartridges are ejected, these microscopic markings are imprinted on the cartridges, which can then be recovered by police and examined by forensic ballistics
...upon which to accept the identifying engraving, although for factory-fresh cartridges, the same information will be available in legible form on both the primer
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Flintlocks may be any type of [[small arm]]: [[long gun]] or [[pistol]], [[smoothbore]] or [[rifle]], [[muzzleloader]] or [[Breechloading|breechl
...'Scottish Flintlock pistol''': David McKenzie, a Dundee gunsmith made this pistol. The heart shaped [[Stock|butt]] is commonly found on pistols made in Scotl
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...e [[7.62x39mm]] [[rifle]] and round-nosed for the [[7.62x25mm]] [[pistol]] cartridges.]]
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The company produces bullets in around twenty calibers, from .25 to .45 for [[pistol]]s and from .223 to .30-06 for [[rifle]]s. Each calibre comes in two forms,
...hicker than drywall or sheet metal. However, the wounds produced by these cartridges fail to produce penetration of depth and quality in targets as do more conv
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