Any currently produced top-fed autoloaders?

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Alright, the be fair, this is for giggles and little else. Is there any currently produced autoloading pistol that feeds from the top à la the Mauser C/96, Steyr Hahn M1912, and Grendel P-10?

No this isn't totally random; I've read any autoloaders feeding from the bottom are grouped with machine-guns in Washington DC and therefore verboten. Though I reside nowhere near DC, the wording of their law couldn't help me but think of the, largely, WWI-era handguns that fed from the top.
 
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All I can think of is that there are some ISU target .22s that load from the top.

In older guns there was the Little Tom pocket pistol, Steyr 1900, and Roth-Steyr that I can think of offhand.
Do we count the very low production custom Wyatt-Imthurn .45 Luger?

How about a Bergman that loads from the side?
 
Soemthing tells me that just about any semi-auto, no matter how it's feed, would not go over well in the District of Columbia. :rolleyes:

But if you come up with Jim's Wyatt-Imthurn .45 Luger... I'd love to see it! :D
 
Actually, I'm not sure these would even be permissible. After all, the term used in the prohibition is only "bottom-loader", and it doesn't go on to stipulate what actually is being loaded. Is the prohibition on the insertion of the magazine into the gun from the bottom, or the loading of the round into the firing chamber from the bottom?

Some of those guns I'm not familiar with, but I do own the Grendel. Its magazine is loaded from the top (like any other magazine, actually), but the firing chamber is loaded from the bottom. Its only difference from the mechanism of the pistol Dick Heller tried to register is that its magazine is non-removable.
 
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Although not current there were the small bore pistols with a spiral cylindrical magazine on the top rear of the weapon. I don't recall the brand, but I'm sure someone remembers it.
 
Thanx all for the replies.

Yah, I doubt any semi-auto is Kosher in DC, but I couldn't help but chuckle at the mental image of someone "kicking it old school" with a C/96 or some such due to the wackadoo language in the law.

Oh and a Wyatt-Imthurn .45 Luger is just too cool. :D
 
Ah, interesting; it looks like they've reworded their law in 2008. It used to be:
“(10) ‘Machine gun’ means any firearm which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot:
“(A) Automatically, more than 1 shot by a single function of the trigger;
“(B) Semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading.”​


Not any more though and most semi-autos look to be legal. The article I read must have been citing the old language. Thanx guys! :D
 
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