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    A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns. The Austrians introduced the...
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    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)...
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    gun" in German, but cognate with the English term "Machine pistol"). However, the term "machine pistol" is also used to describe a handgun-style firearm...
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    Maschinenpistole 40 ("Machine pistol 40") descended from its predecessor the MP 38, which was in turn based on the MP 36, a prototype made of machined steel. The...
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    Steyr TMP (Taktische Maschinenpistole/Tactical Machine Pistol) is a 9×19mm Parabellum caliber machine pistol manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher of Austria...
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    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...
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    Stechkina = Автоматический Пистолет Стечкина) is a Soviet selective fire machine pistol that is chambered in 9×18mm Makarov and 9×19mm Parabellum. It was introduced...
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    A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges...
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    The Steyr M1912, also known as the Steyr-Hahn, is a semi-automatic pistol that was developed in 1911 by the Austrian firm Steyr Mannlicher, based on the...
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  • of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons...
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    The Draco Pistol, or more commonly known as simply a Draco, named after the Dacian dragon-like battle banner, is a series of Romanian-designed gas-operated...
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    ASMI (redirect from Asmi (machine pistol))
    India's first indigenously developed 9mm Machine Pistol". "India's First Indigenously Developed 9mm Machine Pistol". pib.gov.in. 14 January 2021. Archived...
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    Uzi (redirect from Uzi Pistol 9 mm)
    family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly...
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    The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) is a semi-automatic pistol that was originally produced by German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937. Unlicensed...
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    slide of a Glock handgun, converting the semi-automatic pistol into a selective fire machine pistol capable of fully automatic fire. As a type of auto sear...
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    "C. I. S. A. Technical Report No. J-28 on 8 M/M Unknown Type Japanese Machine Carbine" (PDF). 8 April 1946. "Japanese Model II Type A". 17 October 2012...
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  • variants, the Trejo Modelo 1 "TIPO RÁFAGA", is considered the smallest machine pistol in the world. During the 1940s, Abraham Trejo began independently developing...
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    semi-automatic pistols, although other handguns such as derringers and machine pistols also see infrequent usage. Before commercial mass production, handguns...
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    Mechanical Plant, based on the Makarov pistol; since the merger of the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant to form the Kalashnikov...
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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...
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    Glock (redirect from Glock Pistol)
    polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, striker-fired, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.H. The firearm...
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  • & Koch Saluting Gun M635 HK P11 HK P46 (formerly UCP - Universal Combat Pistol) SMG I & SMG II < HK MP5 PIP MP2000 HK 32 (7.62×39 mm Prototype) HK 36 (4...
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    OTs-33 Pernach (category 9×18mm Makarov machine pistols)
    Russian 9x18 Makarov machine pistol, derived from the 5.45 mm OTs-23 Drotik machine pistol. The Pernach is an automatic pistol designed to replace the...
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    Pistolul model 1998, also known as Dracula, is a machine pistol designed and manufactured by Uzina Mecanică Sadu of Romania. It was designed in 1998 and...
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    Frommer Stop (category Machine pistols)
    Stop pistols into automatic machine pistols with 25-round magazines and fitted them side-by-side to a central mount with a tripod. The machine-pistols were...
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    Škorpion machine pistol was introduced to fill the gap between submachine guns and semi-automatic pistols. More than 200,000 of these machine pistols in the...
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  • (Chinese: 80式衝鋒手槍; pinyin: 80 Shì chōngfēng shǒuqiāng) is a close-combat machine pistol that was used in China in the 1980s by the People's Liberation Army...
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    Derringer (redirect from Derringer pistol)
    neither a revolver, semi-automatic pistol, nor machine pistol. It is not to be confused with mini-revolvers or pocket pistols, although some later derringers...
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    longer barrel, with conical rear part, and lack of stock – the gun had a pistol grip instead. Bechowiec-1 Błyskawica submachine gun Choroszmanów submachine...
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    America, after its Beretta 92 pistol was selected as the service handgun for the United States Army (as the "M9 pistol"). In 1993, a Beretta USA executive...
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