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The pistol is a simple blowback with an unlocked breach. It uses a 4.25 mm (.167 in) rimless centerfire straight-sided cartridge (which became known as the 4.25mm Liliput , and which is no longer manufactured), that was introduced with the Erika 4.25mm handgun.
The AMT Backup is a small semi-automatic pistol. It was first manufactured by the Ordnance Manufacturing Corporation (OMC) of El Monte, CA. The first guns made in .380 ACP by OMC are known as the OMC Backup. OMC produced a short run of these pistols before the tooling was purchased by Arcadia Machine & Tool, who took over
The first widely used and successfully semi-automatic .25 ACP pocket pistols were the FN Model 1905, Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket and later the Baby Browning. The FN 1905 was designed and marketed along with .25 ACP cartridge in 1905. The M1905 is a very small 7-shot, striker-fired, single-action, blow-back operated semi-automatic pistol. It ...
Seecamp immigrated to the US in 1959 and was a gun designer for shotgun maker O.F. Mossberg. He also specialized in double-action conversions for the 1911 Colt.45. [3] In 1978, Seecamp specialized in the miniaturization of pistols. As a result, Seecamps are among the very smallest semi-automatic pistols ever produced.
The Thunder 380 is a lightweight, relatively small semi-automatic pistol series chambered in the .380 ACP caliber made by Argentine firearms manufacturer Bersa, S.A. [1] It is similar in design to the Walther PPK.
Ortgies Semi-Automatic Pistol: H. Ortgies & Co..25 ACP.32 ACP.380 ACP Weimar Republic: 1919 OTs-21 Malysh: Kalashnikov Concern: 9×18mm Makarov.380 ACP Russia: 1994 OTs-27 Berdysh: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 9×18mm Makarov 9×19mm Parabellum 7.62×25mm Tokarev Russia: 1994 OTs-33 Pernach: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 9×18mm Makarov Russia ...
The Beretta 3032 Tomcat builds on a long line of small and compact pocket pistols for self defense manufactured by Beretta. [2] The allure and popularity is commonly attributed to the loading procedure, which does not require the user to "rack" the slide to chamber a round, but rather place a round in the tip-up barrel before the magazine is ...
The Ruger-5.7 is a semi-automatic pistol introduced in December 2019 by Sturm, Ruger & Co. [3] It is the first traditionally-styled semi-automatic pistol to be chambered for the 5.7×28mm cartridge since the introduction of the Excel Arms MP-57 in 2012.