- A
pistol is a type of handgun,
characterised by a
barrel with an
integral chamber. The word "
pistol"
derives from the
Middle French pistolet (c. 1550)...
- A
pistoleer is a
mounted soldier trained to use a
pistol, or more
generally anyone armed with such a weapon. It is
derived from pistolier, a
French word...
- The ****
Pistols are an
English punk rock band
formed in
London in 1975.
Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they
became culturally...
- single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic
pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The M1911
pistol originated in the late 1890s as the
result of...
- The
Makarov pistol or PM (Russian: Пистолет Макарова, romanized:
Pistolet Makarova, IPA: [pʲɪstɐˈlʲet mɐˈkarəvə], lit. 'Makarov's
Pistol') is a Soviet...
- Parabellum-Pistole (
Pistol Parabellum),
commonly known as just the
Luger or
Luger P08, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic
pistol. The
Luger was...
-
pistols. The list
covers manually operated and semi-automatic/machine
pistols: The
table is sortable. List of
firearms List of front-magazine
pistols...
-
pistol. It was
developed during the late 1920s by
Fedor Tokarev as a
service pistol for the
Soviet Armed Forces and was
based on the
earlier pistol designs...
- (/ˈmɛərəˌvɪtʃ/ MAIR-ə-vitch; June 22, 1947 –
January 5, 1988),
known by his
nickname Pistol Pete, was an
American professional basketball player. He
starred in college...
- A
machine pistol is a
handgun that is
capable of
fully automatic fire,
including stockless handgun-style
submachine guns. The
Austrians introduced the...
