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  2. Locked breech - Wikipedia

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    Short Recoil Lock from Walther P38. Locked breech is the design of a breech-reloading firearm's action. This is important in understanding how a self-reloading firearm works. In the simplest terms, the locked breech is one way to slow down the opening of the breech of a self-reloading firearm when fired. The source of power for the movement is ...

  3. Dry fire - Wikipedia

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    Dry firing firearms is the practice of discharging (or simulating the discharge of) a firearm without any live ammunition, or practicing with an inert laser/infrared training platform such as an iMarksman or SIRT (Shot Indicating Resetting Trigger) training pistol, and may also include the use of a target/feedback system, such as the iDryfire or LASR software.

  4. List of semi-automatic pistols - Wikipedia

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    Tokarev Sportowy .22 Lr: FB "Ɓucznik" Radom.22 LR Poland: TP-70: Korriphila.22 LR.25 ACP West Germany: 1968 TT pistol: Tula Arms Plant: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Soviet Union: 1930 Trejo pistol: Armas Trejo S.A. Zacatlan.22 Long Rifle.380 ACP Mexico: 1950s Type 80 (pistol) China North Industries Corporation: 7.62×25mm Tokarev China: 1980 Type 14 ...

  5. M1911 pistol - Wikipedia

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    A Colt M1991A1 Compact ORM pistol A Colt M1991A1 Compact ORM pistol with slide locked back to expose bull barrel. Colt Commander: In 1949 Colt began production of the Colt Commander, an aluminum-framed 1911 with a 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 inch barrel and a rounded hammer. It was developed in response to an Army requirement issued in 1949, for a lighter ...

  6. Chamber (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Chambers of a revolver's cylinder. The act of chambering a cartridge means the insertion of a round into the chamber, either manually or through the action of the weapon, e.g., pump-action, lever-action, bolt action, or autoloading operation generally in anticipation of firing the weapon, without need to "load" the weapon upon decision to use it (reducing the number of actions needed to ...

  7. Carl Walther GmbH - Wikipedia

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    The German Walther company is known as Carl Walther GmbH. In 1999, the U.S.-based Smith & Wesson company became the authorized importer for Walther Firearms. [5] In 2012, the PW Group formed a new subsidiary, Walther Arms, Inc., located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to take over the distribution of Walther arms in the United States.

  8. Action (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Single-shot actions operate only to ignite a cartridge that is separately set up ("in battery") for firing, and are incapable of moving the cartridge, itself. As the name implies, all single-shot firearms (unless they are multi-barreled) can only hold one round of ammunition and need to be manually reloaded after every firing. Historically ...

  9. Semi-automatic pistol - Wikipedia

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    A Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol chambered in .40 S&W with a tactical light mounted below its barrel.. A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol [1]) is a repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every shot fired, but only one round of ammunition is fired each time the trigger is pulled.