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Definition of Pistols

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Colt pistol Colt pistol (Firearms) A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, & Colt-Browning, pistol.
Pistol
Pistol Pis"tol, n. [F. pistole, pistolet, It. pistola; prob. from a form Pistola, for Pistoja, a town in Italy where pistols were first made. Cf. Pistole.] The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.
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Pistol Pis"tol, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pistoled; p. pr. & vb. n. Pistoling.] [Cf. F. pistoler.] To shoot with a pistol. ``To pistol a poacher.' --Sydney Smith.

Meaning of Pistols from wikipedia

- semi-automatic pistol is the Walther PPK. Blowback pistols are some of the more simply designed handguns. Many semi-automatic pistols today operate using...
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- pistols. The list covers manually operated and semi-automatic/machine pistols: The table is sortable. List of firearms List of front-magazine pistols...
- million contract for up to 12,000 M45A1 pistols with an initial order of 4036 pistols to replace the M45 MEU(SOC) pistol. The Marine Corps issued the M45A1...
- soon as the trigger is pulled again. Most pistols use a short recoil operation to perform this, but some pistols use simple blowback or gas operation mechanisms...
- specified that the German Army could only have 50,000 pistols, and prohibited submachine guns and pistols with stocks altogether. As the Luger was expensive...
- Pistols at Dawn may refer to: Pistols at Dawn, a 2000 album by Cauda Pavonis Pistols at Dawn (EP), a 2004 EP by Aqueduct Pistols at Dawn (Consumed album)...
- horse pistol, and its likely that the 1804–1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition procured hor****'s pistols of this type. British and American horse pistols were...
- (March 14, 2000). "Pink Pistols". Salon. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. "About The Pink Pistols". Pink Pistols. January 27, 2015. Berger...
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