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2. Borchardt C-93 - Wikipedia

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   The Borchardt C93 is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893.. The design is based upon the Maxim gun's toggle lock mechanism. The pistol uses a locked breech and a short recoil operating cycle, with the barrel and breech moving backward together for a short distance before the breech is unlocked.

3. .38/.45 Clerke - Wikipedia

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   It is essentially a .45 ACP case, necked down to .357, resulting in a cartridge similar in form to the earlier 7.65×21mm Parabellum and 7.63×25mm Mauser cartridges. It was created to be a low recoil target cartridge that would function reliably with multiple bullet types, FMJ to cast lead wadcutters without the feeding problems that straight walled pistol rounds sometimes exhibit. [2]

4. Case-hardening - Wikipedia

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   Case colouring refers to this pattern and is commonly encountered as a decorative finish on firearms. Case-hardened steel combines extreme hardness and extreme toughness, which is not readily matched by homogeneous alloys since hard homogeneous steels tend to be brittle, especially those steels whose hardness relies on carbon content alone.

5. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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   The M1911 design is a popular example of a handgun with a grip safety, [2] while the Uzi submachine gun and the HS2000 (marketed in the US as the Springfield Armory XD) and its descendants are other notable examples of this type of safety. Dan Wesson 1911-style Patriot pistol with a grip safety lever protruding at the back of the grip

6. 9×25mm Dillon - Wikipedia

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   The 9×25mm Dillon is a pistol wildcat cartridge developed for use in USPSA/IPSC Open guns. The cartridge is made by necking down (reducing the diameter of the "neck" of the case to suit a new caliber) [ clarification needed ] a 10mm Auto case to 9 mm .

7. Gun safe - Wikipedia

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   An example (open and closed) of a typical gun safe. A gun safe is a safe designed for storing one or more firearms and/or ammunitions.Gun safes are primarily used to prevent access by unauthorized or unqualified persons (such as children), for burglary protection and, in more capable safes, to protect the contents from damage by flood, fire or other natural disasters.