A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long gun (i.e., carbine, rifle, shotgun, submachine gun, or...

This is a list of handgun cartridges, approximately in order of increasing caliber. Although not originally designed for handguns, several rifle and shotgun...

customized version of SIG Sauer's P320 had won the Army's XM17 Modular Handgun System competition. The full-sized model was designated the M17, and the...

A handgun holster is a device used to hold or restrict the undesired movement of a handgun, most commonly in a location where it can be easily withdrawn...

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)...

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...

Handgun (also known as Deep in the Heart) is a 1983 American vigilante film starring Karen Young, Clayton Day, and Suzie Humphreys. It was written and...

Brady: United Against Gun Violence (formerly “Handgun Control, Inc”., the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence)...

called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every...

Handgun hunting is a form of hunting primarily done with specialized handguns that have long barrels and mounted scopes (optical aiming devices). Even...

The IPSC Handgun World Shoot is the highest level handgun match within the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) which consists of several...

A .50 caliber handgun / Anti-materiel pistol is a handgun firing a bullet measuring approximately 0.5 inches (12.7 mm) in diameter intended with the task...

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...

entrenching tools, various horse related products, and apparel. Glock handguns are used by armed forces and law enforcement organizations worldwide, including...

Modular Handgun System (MHS) competition was a United States Army and United States Air Force competition for a new service pistol. The Modular Handgun System...

Prvi Partizan. May be none for obsolete and wildcat cartridges. H/R: Handgun (H) or rifle (R) - dominant usage of the cartridge (although several dual-purpose...

American Handgunner is a magazine dedicated to handguns, handgun hunting, competition shooting, reloading, tactical knife and other shooting-related activities...

Armor-piercing bullets for rifle and handgun cartridges are designed to penetrate ballistic armor and protective shields intended to stop or deflect conventional...

the most powerful handgun cartridge to date, with the capacity to harvest all North American game species. While more powerful handgun cartridges, such...

registered handgun (one that appears on the license, indicating the specific make, model, caliber, and serial number of the handgun). The carry of a handgun in...

is a Japanese-designed handgun that was manufactured in the puppet state of Manchukuo for issue to occupying forces. The handgun is chambered in the .32...

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 2017 IPSC Handgun World Shoot, second behind Bob Vogel in the 2011 IPSC Handgun World Shoot, and placed third in the 2014 IPSC Handgun World Shoot behind...

land possessed by a person, even if one has a valid permit to carry a handgun, except when being transported directly to and from these places. LEOSA...

The USPSA Handgun Championships are yearly championships held by the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) run under USPSA-rules (contrary...

A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns. The Austrians introduced the...

straight-blowback-action, all-steel construction, frame-fixed barrel handgun. In blowback designs, the only force holding the slide closed is that of...

Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Erik Larson. Through the lens of a 1988 school shooting in Virginia Beach...

fired freehand without support out to 500 meters, and with large bore handguns from the prone position with only body support out to 200 meters. Competitions...

control laws, including public petitions for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Report. The incident...