- 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)...
- semi-automatic
pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The
pistol's formal U.S.
military designation as of 1940 was
Automatic Pistol,
Caliber .45,...
- 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...
- In
American English, a
pocket pistol is any small, pocket-sized semi-automatic
pistol (or less
commonly referencing either derringers, or revolvers),...
- The
Makarov pistol or PM (Russian: Пистолет Макарова, romanized:
Pistolet Makarova, IPA: [pʲɪstɐˈlʲet mɐˈkarəvə], lit. 'Makarov's
Pistol') is a Soviet...
-
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...
- A
machine pistol is a
handgun that is
capable of
fully automatic fire,
including stockless handgun-style
submachine guns. The
Austrians introduced the...
- A semi-automatic
pistol (also
called a self-loading
pistol, autopistol, or
autoloading pistol) is a
repeating handgun that
automatically ejects and loads...
- 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...
