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|type= [[Automatic rifle|Automatic]] / [[Semi-automatic rifle]] / [[Service rifle]] |manufacturer=originally [[ArmaLite]] & [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]]

...Colt]] semi-automatic .45 pistol—a design which evolved into the [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]] pistol adopted by the U.S. Army in 1911. ...y were fighting at the time of the Philippine-American war, than the [[.45 Colt]]. The current issue rifle at the time, the [[.30-40 Krag]], also had faile

...0walter%20gb.htm]. However it is probably most popular due to use in the [[Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket]] and the [[Raven MP-25]]. ...]]. The tiny cartridge has also been used in some precision crafted target pistols.

... rounded nose of its bullet led some to believe it was designed for use in pistols. ...d like the [[.45 ACP]] used in the [[Thompson submachine gun]] and [[M1911 Colt pistol]], some troops found the .30 Carbine cartridge incapable of penetrat

... by [[firearms]] designer [[John Browning]], for use in the [[FN M1900]] [[semi-automatic pistol]]. It is also known as the '''7.65x17mm Browning SR''' or '''7.65 mm John Browning engineered most modern semi-automatic pistol mechanisms and cartridges. As his first pistol cartridge, the .32 A

...sts defeated any handgun cartridge traveling at less than about 1000 ft/s. Colt's .38 Super Automatic just edged over that velocity and was able to penetra ...at Leverguns.com]</ref> It has similar stopping power on game to the [[.45 Colt]] with a much flatter trajectory. It is a very versatile cartridge, and can

|manufacturer=[[Colt Manufacturing Company]] ...d by [[firearms]] designer [[John Browning]]. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular [[self-defense]] cartridge ever since.

|name= .38 Automatic Colt Pistol |manufacturer= [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]]

|parent=[[.38 Long Colt]] ... used in [[revolver]]s, although some [[Semi-automatic self-loading pistol|semi-automatic pistol]]s and [[carbine]]s also use this round. The .38 Special was the sta

... was better, and the .44 Special case was smaller in diameter than the .45 Colt case&mdash;in revolvers of the same size, this meant the .44 caliber revolv ...0 Winchester]] was introduced by Winchester in a lever action in 1873, and Colt followed in 1878 with a revolver chambered in the same caliber. [[.38-40 W

}}The '''10mm Auto''' (10x25mm) is a [[cartridge]] for [[semi-automatic pistol]]s, developed by [[Jeff Cooper]] and originally produced by [[ammuni ...average agent/police officer competency of use and qualification," and the pistols that chambered it were too large for some small-handed individuals.<ref>[ht

...mouth of the case.<ref name="wilson">Wilson, R. K. ''Textbook of Automatic Pistols'', pp.229,234,241,254&258. Plantersville, SC: Small Arms Technical Publishi ...3 to 1941 and as the Model 1908 for the .380 ACP from 1908 to 1941. The [[Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket]] pistol was manufactured for the .25 ACP from 1908

...is also spelled "Girandony"or "Giradoni")<ref>L.Wesley, ''Air Guns and Air Pistols'', London 1955</ref> or "Girardoni".<ref>H.L.Blackmore, ''Hunting Weapons'' In the [[United Kingdom]], for example, air pistols generating more than 6 ft·lb_f (8.1 J) or air rifles generating

...in order to increase production of the successful [[Campo-Giro]] series of pistols, produced since 1912. Several models of which, including [[model 1913-16]], Caliber for the 400 was the 9mm Bergman-Bayard named after the first semi-automatic pistol in use with the Spanish Army, albeit for a brief period, being later

|action= [[Blowback]]-operated [[semi-automatic]] ...abrique Nationale]] '''Baby Browning''' is a small [[blowback]]-operated [[semi-automatic pistol]] designed by [[Dieudonné Saive]] based on a design by [[John Brown

|type= [[Semi-automatic pistol]] ... 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

'''Blowback''' is an operating system for [[Semi-automatic firearm|autoloading]] [[firearm]]s that utilizes energy created by combusti ...atively low pressure rounds. Pure blowback operation is typically found on semi-automatic small-caliber [[Handgun|pistol]]s and automatic [[submachine gun]]s. Some l

...hester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]], [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]], [[Remington Arms|Remington]], [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal]] of [[Bel ...automatic shotgun|semi-automatic shotgun]], the BAR [[Semi-automatic rifle|semi-automatic sporting rifle]], and the [[Browning Hi-Power|Hi-Power]] [[9mm]] pistol. Br

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

For example, a Colt Peacemaker revolver, because it was made before 1898, is classed as an "ant ...d as a Serial number. At one point, the Registry had over a dozen Walther semi-automatic handguns registered in a manner that showed the Patent number as being the