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

The British firearms firm Webley & Scott also made an " automatic revolver " around the turn of the 20th century.

* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.

Note that the term " automatic revolver " has two different meanings.

The first meaning is as the term was used in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, when " automatic revolver " referred not to the operational mechanism of firing, but of extraction.

An " automatic revolver " in this context is one which extracts empty fired cases " automatically ," i. e., upon breaking open the action, rather than requiring manual extraction of each case individually with a sliding rod or pin ( as in the Colt Single Action Army design ).

In the second sense, " automatic revolver " refers to the mechanism of firing.

There is a rare class of revolvers, the automatic revolver, that attempts to overcome this restriction, giving the high speed of a double action with the trigger effort of a single-action.

In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, commercially named the Mateba Autorevolver, which uses the recoil energy to auto-rotate a normal revolver cylinder holding six or seven cartridges, depending on the model.

The Pancor Jackhammer is a combat shotgun based on a similar mechanism to an automatic revolver.

The COP 357 Derringer, made in Boise, Idaho, provided four shots of. 357 Magnum in a package not much larger than a. 25 ACP automatic, and was significantly more compact than a similar revolver.

Thus, shooters equipped with a semi-automatic weapon, fully automatic weapon, or a revolver cannot get the full enjoyment out of shooting their firearm.

Inside the car police found a. 38 caliber revolver, a. 45 automatic, a sawed-off pump shotgun, and a Thompson submachine gun.

Today, the 10mm Auto cartridge is generally used to fend off medium-sized dangerous animals, as a high-powered defense caliber, and for hunting, especially by those who prefer the flatter carry profile and higher cartridge capacity of an automatic pistol versus a magnum revolver.

On December 22, 1924, the John D. Shelby Hardware Store of Lebanon, Indiana was robbed of two rifles, two double barreled shot guns, one hammerless double barrel shot gun, two single shot rifles, one Marlin rifle, repeater, two Remington repeating rifles, eight pocket knives, one six inch barrel pistol, one 32 German automatic revolver, about fifty boxes of ammunition, four flashlights, several batteries, and other articles.

Arguably, a forerunner was the Puckle gun, which was a manual revolver cannon, as opposed to an automatic one.

Introduced in the late 1980s, the GIAT 30 is a revolver cannon with electric ignition and automatic recocking.

An automatic revolver ( more correctly, a semi-automatic revolver ) is a revolver that uses the energy of firing for cocking the hammer and revolving the cylinder, rather than using manual operations to perform these actions.

The idea behind an automatic revolver is to automate both actions, removing the need to manually cock the hammer between shots while retaining the lighter trigger pull of the single-action.

* In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, the Mateba Unica auto-revolver, which uses recoil energy to auto-rotate a revolver cylinder holding 6 or 7 cartridges, depending on the model.

He was his own man, not an automatic obstructionist.

The old Morse system was replaced locally by the Simplex modern automatic method in 1929, when Ellamae Heckman ( Wilcox ) was manager of the Western Union office.

He said the assailant, who was armed with a automatic, entered the taxi at Pennsylvania Avenue and Gold Street.

It was an automatic phrase ; ;

Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.

The automatic flour mill built by Oliver Evans in 1785 was called the beginning of modern bulk material handling by Roe ( 1916 ).

Some convictions triggered an automatic penalty, but where this was not the case the two litigants each proposed a penalty for the convicted defendant and the jury chose between them in a further vote.

This use of ATP provided automatic flow control ; each end could only send data to the other end if there was an outstanding ATP request to respond to.

The death penalty was the automatic sentence by North Carolina law at the time, if two requisites in the case were satisfied.

The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

These territories were considered to have been settled by British colonists, and therefore the reception of English law was automatic.

An automatic weather installation was completed on April 7, 1980, with data collected by this station being transmitted directly by satellite to Brittany.

Beck believed that pushing his clients to identify these automatic thoughts was integral to overcoming a particular difficulty.

This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.

The technology of CDMA was used in 1957, when the young military radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich in Moscow, made an experimental model of a wearable automatic mobile phone, called LK-1 by him, with a base station.

This gripping and ungripping action may be manual, as was the case in all early cable car systems, or automatic, as is the case in some recent cable operated people mover type systems.

The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 – 618 ), who had one installed for his royal library.

From 1957, these cars could be fitted with an optional saxomat, an automatic clutch and, at the time it was the only small car offering this feature.

In 1966, the Portuguese created an experimental horse platoon, to operate against the guerrillas in the high grass region of the Eastern Angola, in which each soldier was armed with a G3 assault rifle to combat on foot and with an automatic pistol to fire on horseback.

He was approaching two years on half pay ( which would trigger automatic retirement from the navy ) when on January 8, 1912 his career was saved by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.