Concealed Carry Guns
CONCEALED CARRY GUNS New Semi-Auto Pistols for Self-Defense In addition to its new Deluxe National Standard and Jones Deluxe variations, Cabot has added a totally new model called the American Joe. With unique engraving, this full-house custom beauty comes with special American fl ag grips. Semi-Auto Pistols BYY GARYGGARYY PAULPAAUL JOHNSTONJJOHNSTTOON eginning around 1,300 pistols that fi red only one shot for each is the most common, with the more years ago, the fi rst press on the trigger, and that term was simplifi ed versions referred to as “modi- B guns appeared, the “semi-automatic.” Today, these guns are fi ed Browning short recoil.” A few other prototypes of today’s shotguns, hand- more commonly referred to as pistols pistols use “rotating barrel short recoil,” guns, and rifl es. The etymology of the with the term “semi-automatic” being such as is found with some European word “pistol,” which arrived about the generally understood. models. In any case, the barrel and slide year 1550, is vague, but may have come All self-loading pistols (and other (or bolt) recoil together for only a short from similar sounding words in German, arms of semi-automatic mechanism), distance before being unlocked, with Russian, and French, which referred are gas operated, but how the gas is kinetic energy completing the rearward to a small pipe or fl ute. Whatever the used further describes particular op- travel of the slide. Although there are case, the term was applied to any and erations. The vast majority of today’s others, blowback and short recoil all handguns until the mid-nineteenth semi-automatic pistols operate by operating systems will remain the most century, when the term “revolving simple blowback or short recoil.
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