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A Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol chambered in .40 S&W with a tactical light mounted below its barrel.. A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol [1]) is a repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every shot fired, but only one round of ammunition is fired each time the trigger is pulled.
The Pistole Parabellum, also known in the United States as just the Luger, [38] is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol produced in several models and by several nations from 1898 to 1948. It was one of the first semi-auto pistols to use a detachable magazine housed in the pistol-grip.
It was the first firearm to occupy the gap between rifles and submachine guns. The assault rifle was more powerful and had longer range than the submachine gun, but was less powerful and shorter range than standard rifles. It used intermediate size rounds as well and offered select-fire option (switch from full automatic to semi-automatic).
The FN Browning M1900 (known at the time in Europe just as Browning pistol) is a single action semi-automatic pistol designed c. 1896 by John Browning for Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) and produced in Belgium at the turn of the 20th century. It was the first production handgun to use a slide.
High Standard .22 Pistol: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: High Standard HDM: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: 1942 Hino–Komuro pistol: Komuro Juhou Seisakusho.25 ACP.32 ACP 8mm Nambu Japan: 1903 Horhe (pistol) Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant: 9 mm P.A. Russia: 2006 HS2000 ...
The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...
The first of these guns is the Heckler & Koch VP70, the 70 designating the year of origin; 1970. That is a 9 mm Parabellum, 18-round, double action only, select fire-capable polymer frame pistol. It is the first polymer-framed pistol, predating the Glock 17. The stock incorporates the semi-auto/three-round burst selector, therefore it will only ...
The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911, and Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the improved M1911A1 model which entered service in 1926. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam War era. [10]