Mike snatched a pistol from the heap of scattered booty and fired.

He pulled out his pistol and fired it.

Despite testimony from " Soldier F " that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.

Police claimed that Perry came out firing a revolver while Hall fired an automatic pistol.

When fired, an automatic pistol uses recoil and / or propellant gases to automatically extract the spent cartridge and insert a fresh one from a magazine.

Suddenly Konstantis drew his pistol and fired, missing, the bullet sticking in the church wall where it is still visible today.

The Cheyenne turned and fired at Stuart with an old-fashioned pistol, striking him in the chest with a bullet, which did little more damage than to pierce the skin.

Even though it looked like a small rifle, it used 9mm pistol ammunition, which introduced the idea of an automatic weapon that fired pistol rounds.

In fact, M ' Naghten fired a pistol at the back of Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, who died five days later.

In addition to serving as backup guns, revolvers still fill the specialized niche role as a shield gun ; law enforcement personnel using a " bulletproof " ballistic shield ( Gun shield ) sometimes opt for a revolver instead of a self-loading pistol, because the slide of a pistol may strike the front of the shield when fired.

It could be configured to fire either. 45 ACP ammunition, which the Thompson and M1911 pistol also fired, or the 9 mm Parabellum, widely used by Allies and Axis.

When the rally ended, Rabin walked down the city hall steps towards the open door of his car, at which point Amir fired three shots at Rabin with a semi-automatic pistol.

He approached Diệm and fired a pistol from close range, but missed, hitting the Secretary for Agrarian Reform's left arm.

Gavrić waited for a few minutes, calmly walked up behind the party, and rapidly fired a succession of bullets from his CZ-99 duty-issued pistol.

* June 13, 1889: New Brunswick, New Jersey Charles Crawford upset over an argument with a school Trustee, went up to the window and fired a pistol into a crowded school room.

* February 27, 2012: Chardon, Ohio T. J. Lane, 17, took a. 22-caliber pistol and a knife to Chardon High School and fired 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table, killing 3 and wounding 2.

Kennaway held the driver hostage and Glennon gave cover with a. 22 Derringer pistol while McWilliams opened the side door and fired seven shots at Wright with his PA63 semi-automatic.

It was also demonstrated that Brocius ' pistol could be fired from half-cock.

Holliday returned with a pistol and fired several shots at Joyce and missed, but wounded Joyce in the thumb and Joyce's business partner William Parker in the big toe.

Claiborne said Billy Clanton was supported by a window initially after he was shot, and fired some shots after sitting, with the pistol supported on his leg.

He said that " My impression at the time was that Holliday had the nickel plated pistol ", that " The nickel-plated pistol was the first to fire ," and that " The nickel-plated pistol was fired by the second man from the right.

The significant recoil of the M14 when fired in full-automatic mode was seen as a problem as it reduced accuracy, and in the 1960s it was replaced by Eugene Stoner's AR-15, which also marked a switch from the powerful. 30 caliber cartridges used by the U. S. military up until early in the Vietnam War to the much less powerful but far lighter and light recoiling. 223 caliber ( 5. 56mm ) intermediate cartridge.

Muskets were smoothbore, large caliber weapons using ball-shaped ammunition fired at relatively low velocity.

The term caliber essentially refers to the width of the bullet fired through a rifle's barrel.

Early WWII-era uncapped AP projectiles fired from high-velocity guns were able to penetrate about twice their caliber at close range ( 100 m ).

Later in the conflict, APCBC fired at close range ( 100 m ) from large-caliber, high-velocity guns ( 75 – 128 mm ) were able to penetrate a much greater thickness of armor in relation to their caliber ( 2. 5 times ) and also a greater thickness ( 2 – 1. 75 times ) at longer ranges ( 1, 500 – 2, 000 m ).

Muskets were smoothbore, large caliber weapons using ball-shaped ammunition fired at relatively low velocity.

Smith leaned out of his vehicle and fired one blast of a. 410 caliber shotgun into the back seat of Turner's car, where Bostock and Barbara Smith were seated.

Terminal ballistics is relevant both for small caliber projectiles as well as for large caliber projectiles ( fired from artillery ).

Corruption seems also to have played a major role ; many Chinese shells appear to have been filled with cement or porcelain, or were the wrong caliber and could not be fired.

One bullet removed from Berardelli's body, which was determined by the coroner to be the fatal bullet that had killed the guard, was also of. 32 automatic caliber, but this. 32 bullet exhibited rifling marks with wide rifling grooves and a left-hand rifling twist consistent with having been fired from a. 32 Colt Model 1903 automatic pistol.

Once in the balcony, at 2: 08 p. m., Askew fired a silver. 40 caliber weapon at Davis, striking him several times in the torso.

Entering the Hotel Roosevelt, where he believed the killers were staying, Cohen fired rounds from his two. 45 caliber semi-automatic handguns into the lobby ceiling and demanded that the assassins meet him outside in ten minutes.

Cooper contended that Monfort was " demonstrating the dangers of firearms, playing a form of Russian roulette with a. 38 caliber pistol " and had first spun the gun cylinder and shot at his own head, and when the gun didn't fire, pointed it at the victim, whereupon it fired.

Additionally, a bullet fired from a duelling pistol could have a muzzle velocity of up to approximately, which, with a. 52 caliber bullet, would give it a lethality which compares favourably with more modern automatic pistol cartridges such as. 45 ACP.

This does two things ; first, it increases the accuracy of the projectile by eliminating the random drift due to the Magnus effect, and second, it allows a longer, heavier bullet to be fired from the same caliber barrel, increasing range and power ( see external ballistics ).

Moore was about 40 feet away from President Ford when she fired a single shot at him with a different firearm, a. 38 caliber revolver.

Anne Arundel County Police officers attempted to shoot out the tires of the aircraft in order to prevent it from taking off, but the. 38 caliber bullets fired from the Smith & Wesson revolvers issued to the officers at that time period failed to penetrate the tires of the aircraft and ricocheted off, some hitting the wing of the aircraft.

Louis Scherf fired two. 45 caliber rounds over the heads of the strikers.

A Comanche picked up the trooper's carbine and fired a 0. 58 caliber bullet through Ross's chest.

Although the FBI were reasonably sure that the body found in Staten Island was Napolitano, one discrepancy existed: Lino claimed that he and Filocomo shot Napolitano with. 38 caliber revolvers and that he himself had fired more than once.

* Replace worn barrels, which have fired so many rounds that they are no longer of the specified caliber ( which leads to loss of accuracy ).