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A handheld firearm that holds up to 14 rounds of ammunition

pistol

Public health A handheld firearm that holds up to 14 rounds of ammunition. See Ballistics. Cf Assault weapon, Shotgun.
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It holds the pistol in a muzzle-forward angle, similar to action pistol "race" holsters.
A MASTERFUL HOLSTER: SUREFIRE'S NEW RIG SURE LOOKS DIFFERENT-BUT IT WORKS
The course is a follow-on course to the NRA Basic Pistol or First Steps Pistol Shooting Course.
In-Gauge of Polk County Offers New NRA Training Opportunity
Zippered pistol rug--holds and protects a large handgun." End of story for most pistol rugs, right?
Flying circle tactical pistol rug, large
A There's no need to sell the farm in order to get into pistol shooting.
Pistol for honing skills
Fig C-7 in the old version showed the pistol grip, NSN 1005-01-306-9442; a pin, NSN 5315-01-3097192; and the locking plate assembly, NSN 1005-01131-1911.
Pistol grip changed in new TM
They clinched bronze in Air Pistol Junior Women, Air Pistol Junior Men ( two bronze) and Standard Pistol Junior Men categories.
Junior shooters bag two gold in Germany
Soldiers earn the Distinguished Pistol Shot Badge after earning 30 Excellence in Competition (EIC) points, also known as leg points or legs.
Earning the distinguished pistol shot badge
Right now there are so many types of handguns that fit into the "pocket pistol" category that figuring out how to organize them is challenging.
ROUNDUP
Meanwhile, Murree police held Liaqat for having 1 pistol 30 bore with 3 rounds, Ganjmandi police rounded up Rahat and Shahzad with 2 pistol 30 bore with 7 rounds, Perwadhai Police rounded up Shair Ali for having 1 pistol 30 bore with 6 rounds, Sadiqabad police held Usama with 1 pistol 30 rounds and 4 rounds, Cantt police apprehended Irfan for having 1 riffle machine gun with 180 rounds and Adbullah with 1 pistol 9mm with 2 rounds while Gujar khan police busted Abdul Jabbar and recovered 1 gun 12 bore.
Police arrest 14 outlaws
The decision is a goodwill gesture by the committee and is taken after considering the withdrawal of two Olympic quotas in the MenaACAOs 25m Rapid Fire Pistol.
ISSF to reimburse medal Winners of 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event for non-availability of quotas
This treatise is a spinoff of my American Gunsmith article in the May 2018 issue covering precision scope mounting the Remington XP-100 pistol. In that article I wrote, "In the load and accuracy of various scoped pistols I had designed and built a special pistol rest.
Building and Using a Better Pistol Rest: There is a good chance you can vastly improve your pistol shooting accuracy--and you won't need a machine rest to do it. Building a reliable pistol rest, along with a sound shooting technique, is a good place to begin
The firearm was an AR-15 Pistol, a "chopped" version of the Saint AR-15.
FIRST LOOK! THE SPRINGFIELD SAINT AR-15 PISTOL

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