CajunBass
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Yea, I've known that for about 40 years or so.
I still don't care. If it's a handgun, it's a pistol.
I still don't care. If it's a handgun, it's a pistol.
I Did not know this.......Technically speaking
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It won't make any difference but here...
Before semis were widely available, a century and more ago, folks did at times call revolvers "pistols". As semis became common a distinction evolved and in common daily language that distinction stands. But we also hear folks call a revolver a pistol which is the older way. Both work. I don't worry on it much.
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Before semis were widely available, a century and more ago, folks did at times call revolvers "pistols". As semis became common a distinction evolved and in common daily language that distinction stands. But we also hear folks call a revolver a pistol which is the older way. Both work. I don't worry on it much.
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NPR story
It was interesting. The host was trying to suggest that Glocks are the pistol of choice when committing crimes. The author being interviewed was clear in saying quite the contrary. Glocks are expensive and, yes they have been used in high profile shootings, they are not the pistol of choice for criminals. She seemed to push some more but he would not relent and agree with her. He was also real clear how anti-gunners stepped on their ties, so to speak, about them being the hijackers guns because they were plastic and could not be detected by x-rays. He said the anti's had to do allot of back peddling when the truth came out.
All in all it was not a real anti gun interview. It was more about the history of Glocks and their inventor.
It was interesting. The host was trying to suggest that Glocks are the pistol of choice when committing crimes. The author being interviewed was clear in saying quite the contrary. Glocks are expensive and, yes they have been used in high profile shootings, they are not the pistol of choice for criminals. She seemed to push some more but he would not relent and agree with her. He was also real clear how anti-gunners stepped on their ties, so to speak, about them being the hijackers guns because they were plastic and could not be detected by x-rays. He said the anti's had to do allot of back peddling when the truth came out.
All in all it was not a real anti gun interview. It was more about the history of Glocks and their inventor.
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Colt called it a "Revolving Pistol", a name meant to be distinctive from a "pistol". After time the pistol part was dropped and revolvers became known as revolvers. It seems pretty clear to me that Colt tried to use 2 different terms even years ago.
Personally I have always tried to use the number of chambers as the way to define the two. A pistol is a single shot, lever action, bolt action, break action, semi-auto, or any other type of handgun with a single chamber.
A handgun with multiple chambers that rotate and fire through the same barrel is a revolver.
Derringer's, pepperboxes or any other type of handgun are separate, and different categories of handguns.
I think it is important that we as gun owners should be aware of how the guns got their names. I also realize that over time the definition of different words and objects change and many folks now use the term "pistol" to define any handgun. I would prefer they not, but I ain't gonna change anything, so I don't lose any sleep over it either.
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Let the busybodies be as technical as they want, historically revo's, or any firearm fired from a single hand, are pistols. Always were, always will be.
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I own both a revolver and a auto loading pistol...
I carry either one in a holster on my right hip...
That makes them both my "Sidearms"....
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I carry either one in a holster on my right hip...
That makes them both my "Sidearms"....
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It was an interview with Paul Barrett, the author of the book "Glock: The Rise Of America's Gun". Barrett is an editor and writer at the magazine Bloomberg Buisness Week and focuses on Gaston Glock's business model.
Here is a link to the article and interview...
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145640473/how-the-glock-became-americas-weapon-of-choice
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I guess my S&W JM revolver won't shoot ACP then? 
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Nothing to see here...move along
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The pistol came first; matchlock, wheel lock, flint lock.
Later the revolver was invented and distinguished from the ordinary pistol with a snazzy new name.
Later still the autopistol, or semi-auto was developed.
They are all still pistols, but an autopistol doesn't revolve and a revolver isn't an automatic.
Except for that weird Webly-Fosbery abomination that murder fiction writers love, the 'semi-automatic revolving pistol'.
Later the revolver was invented and distinguished from the ordinary pistol with a snazzy new name.
Later still the autopistol, or semi-auto was developed.
They are all still pistols, but an autopistol doesn't revolve and a revolver isn't an automatic.
Except for that weird Webly-Fosbery abomination that murder fiction writers love, the 'semi-automatic revolving pistol'.
38riverrat
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I hope that revolvers are indeed pistols, since my Washington State concealed carry permit is called "license to carry concealed pistol", and I carry a S&W M442.
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Snubshooter
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So you were listening to an anti american station (npr) Where an employee of that anti american scum(bloomberg) was discussing how bad Glock is at his personal relationships.
WELL, Isn't that like watching brokeback mountain because the media said it was a western?
WELL, Isn't that like watching brokeback mountain because the media said it was a western?
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I guess we're finished here.
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