Pistoleer - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pistoleerColt pistol
A self loading or semi automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case and reloads ready for another shot Called also Browning pistol Colt Browning pistol automatic pistol and automatic...
Revolvers and pistols
Revolvers and pistols, the term 'revolvers and pistols' include a country-made revolver or pistol, Paras Ram v. State of Haryana, (1992) 4 SCC 662: AIR 1993 SC 1212 (1214). [Arms Rules (1962), Sch. I, Category III (a)]...
machine pistol
A fully automatic pistol a small submachine gun...
Pistole
The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon or about 390 and in Germany and Italy nearly the same There was an old Italian pistole worth about 540...
Pistoleer
One who uses a pistol...
Pistol
Pistol. See GUN; FIREARMS....
Derringer
A kind of short barreled pocket pistol of very large caliber often carrying a half ounce ball...
Firearm
A gun pistol or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance as gunpowder...
Flintlock
A lock for a gun or pistol having a flint fixed in the hammer which on striking the steel ignites the priming...
Gun
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end in which the projectile is placed with an explosive charge such as guncotton or gunpowder behind which is ignited by various means Pistols rifles carbines muskets and fowling pieces are smaller guns for hand use and are called small arms Larger guns are called cannon ordnance fieldpieces carronades howitzers etc See these terms in the Vocabulary...
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