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colt pistol
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colt 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 . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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