While the term " pistol " can be properly used to describe any handgun, it is common to refer to a single-shot or auto-loading handgun as a " pistol " and a revolver as a " revolver ".

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The loading gate on the original Colt designs ( and on nearly all single-action revolvers since, such as the famous Colt Single Action Army ) is on the right side, which was done to facilitate loading while on horseback ; with the revolver held in the left hand, the cartridges can easily be ejected and loaded with the right.

Russell, concluding this was a suicide, indicates that a Daugherty aide entered Smith's room moments after a noise awoke him, and found Smith on the floor with his head in a trash can and a revolver in his hand.

Clanton said Wyatt shoved his revolver in his belly, telling him, " You son-of-a-bitch, you can have a fight!

Normally shooters load the cartridges into half-moon clips ( or similar devices that can hold 2, 3, or 6 rounds, for a six-shot revolver ).

revolver, required 11 pounds of pressure on the trigger to fire, which can only occur when the trigger is intentionally pulled.

With multiple chambers and a single barrel, autocannons using the revolver principle can combine a very high rate of fire and high acceleration to maximum firing rate with low weight, at cost of a reduced sustained rate of fire compared to Gatling guns.

* Barracuda: Double-action multi-caliber revolver that can be switched between three calibers ( 9 × 19mm Parabellum,. 38 Special and. 357 Magnum ) by changing parts of the cylinder.

The man-portable grenade launcher can come in the form of either a single-shot weapon or a repeating weapon resembling a large revolver or pump-action shotgun.

Thus rifles and pistols can be fired even with detached magazine, while a revolver cannot be fired with its cylinder swung out.

Note that cartridges loaded with wadcutter target bullets and cartridges for the Nagant revolver can be mistaken for blanks because the bullet does not protrude past the mouth of the cartridge casing.

Based on the. 357 Magnum cartridge, a revolver or single-shot pistol designed for the. 357 Max can fire. 357 Magnum, and. 38 Special rounds.

As it avoids the additional weight of multiple barrels, a revolver cannon can fire a larger calibre projectile than a Gatling gun of the same weight.

Revolvers chambered in. 460 S & W Magnum can usually accept. 454 Casull and. 45 Colt rounds as well ( in the same way that a. 475 Linebaugh revolver can take. 480 Ruger ), a useful cost-saving feature that can increase the appeal of the. 460 over the. 480 for some shooters, especially for practice sessions where full-power rounds are not necessary.

Before Palmer can shoot Grabelski with his revolver, the troop launch rocks at the them via Kelsey's bra.

Initially armed with a standard-issue service revolver, the player can acquire upgraded weapons during the course of play: a Magnum Gun, a Semi-automatic pistol, a shotgun, or an assault rifle.

They can choose from a Tokyo police officer ( male or female ), a detective from the Metro Police, or an SAT trooper, each carrying different handguns ( 5-round revolver, 8-round Glock, 12-round HK MP5 ).

Clanton said Wyatt shoved his revolver in his belly, telling him, " You son-of-a-bitch, you can have a fight!

They Hunger features little original Half-Life content apart from the revolver, some sound clips, a few types of ammunition the player can pick up, and a few other minor details, although many weapons and NPCs are simply re-skins of the content in Half-Life.

Bob Munden, regarded as the fastest man with a gun ever, is a well-known exhibition shooter who can draw, fire, break a balloon target with a blank using a standard weight single-action revolver and return his gun to his holster in the blink of an eye.

At that point, Corbett shot Booth with his Colt revolver despite Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's orders that Booth should be taken alive.

The classic combination would be a Winchester lever action carbine and a Colt revolver in. 44-40 or. 38-40.

A single-action revolver requires the hammer to be pulled back by hand before each shot, which also revolves the cylinder.

Each chamber has to be reloaded manually, which makes reloading a revolver a much slower procedure than reloading a semi-automatic pistol.

A second revolver may be secured behind the shield to provide a quick means of continuity of fire.

These were caplocks or " cap and ball " revolvers, because the caplock method of priming was the first to be compact enough to make a practical revolver feasible.

This meant that to fire the revolver from a hammer down state, the trigger must be pulled twice.

Ike sat down to have another drink, his revolver in plain sight, and told Earp " You must not think I won't be after you all in the morning.

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

This turned out to be a wise decision, as in 1895 Nagant's revolver was adopted by the Russian army as the main sidearm.

The gun is thought to be referenced in Hirsh Glick's " Zog Nit Keyn Mol ", the well-known song of the World War II Jewish partisans, which includes the words " This song a people sang amid collapsing walls / With Nagants in the hand " ( Yiddish: מיט נא ַ גא ַ נעס אין די הענט, mit naganes in di hent ); though this refers to the Nagant revolver, not the Mosin rifle.

This observation seems to be supported by contemporaneous newspaper accounts reporting that Billy the Kid could shoot handguns " with his left hand as accurately as he does with his right " and that " his aim with a revolver in each hand, shooting simultaneously, is unerring.

They decide that Andrew will tell the police that he came across the burglar, fired at him twice with his revolver, ran out of bullets, was overpowered, and was tied up in a chair, to be discovered by the cleaner.

American units fighting Moro guerrillas during the Philippine-American War using the then-standard Colt M1892 revolver, in. 38 Long Colt, found it to be unsuitable for the rigors of jungle warfare, particularly in terms of stopping power, as the Moros had very high battle morale and frequently used drugs to inhibit the sensation of pain.

The U. S. Army briefly reverted to using the M1873 single-action revolver in. 45 Colt caliber, which had been standard during the late 19th century ; the heavier bullet was found to be more effective against charging tribesmen.

Craig armed himself with a Colt New Service. 455 Eley calibre revolver, of which Craig had shortened the barrel so that it could be easily carried in his pocket.

Local municipal police under the MPS used to be usually unarmed in contrast to the agents of the PAP ; however since 2006 decision has been taken to issue sidearms to all frontline MPS personnel ; the chosen firearm is a 9mm double-action revolver manufactured by the China North Industries Corporation.

The “ any other weapon ” definition excludes weapons designed to be fired from the shoulder that are not capable of firing fixed ammunition or a pistol or revolver having a rifled bore.

A pistol or revolver modified as described is an “ any other weapon ” subject to the NFA because the weapon is not designed to be fired when held in one hand.

( Smith's cartridge, the. 22 Short, would be introduced commercially in 1857 with the landmark Smith & Wesson Model 1 revolver and is still manufactured today.