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- A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long barreled gun (i.e., carbine, rifle, shotgun, submachine...
- This is a list of handgun cartridges, approximately in order of increasing caliber. Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun...
- self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every...
- The USPSA Handgun Championships are yearly championships held by the United States Practical Shooting ****ociation (USPSA) run under USPSA-rules (contrary...
- concealed weapon (CCW), is the practice of carrying a weapon (such as a handgun) in public in a concealed manner, either on one's person or in close proximity...
- The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Pub.L. 103–159, 107 Stat. 1536, enacted November 30, 1993), often referred to as the Brady Act, the Brady Bill...
- in December 1951. The PM is heavy for its size by modern US commercial handgun standards, largely because in a blowback pistol, the heavy slide is necessary...
- 2012 pp.48-51&83-84 Eger, Chris (April 20, 2020). "Heckler & Koch's 1st Handgun: The HK4". Guns.Com. Retrieved February 23, 2024. Hitting the market in...
- Handgun effectiveness is a measure of the stopping power of a handgun: its ability to incapacitate a hostile target as quickly and efficiently as possible...
- pressures for greater velocity and energy. Famously called "the most powerful handgun [cartridge] in the world" by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, the .44 Magnum...