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Browning pistol

Colt pistol \Colt pistol\ (Firearms) A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning pistol, Colt-Browning pistol, automatic pistol and automatic.

Usage examples of "browning pistol".

The officer, his Browning pistol cocked and fastened to his body by a lanyard, swung his left shoulder into the front bedroom door, and bullocked his way to the window.

Suzi had climbed up the stairs from the gondola, her Browning pistol pointing ahead along the walkway.

But Buchanan was already in motion, lunging from the plastic chair, diving toward the left, toward the first twin and the Browning pistol he'd set on the table, his hand spread over it.

I looked for my Browning pistol, but it was not on the console where I had left it.

Transferring a Browning pistol from my hip-pocket to that of my raincoat, I trudged on into the mist.

I believe he would give his binoculars for her though possibly not the Browning pistol, she thought.

He took a Browning pistol from his gun case, slipped a full bullet clip into the handle and strapped on a holster, slanting it backward he noticed, the way Orval always had told him to.

Ryan closed his eyes, remembering the moment, a loaded Browning pistol in his grip, his blood boiling in his veins but his hands like ice, the exquisite moment at which he could have ended the life of the man who had so wanted to end his own--and Cathy's, and Sally's, and Little Jack, yet unborn.

Also, in the pocket of his overcoat, he had a neat Browning pistol.

He had his hand inside his jacket, on the grip of his Browning pistol--but he was left without a target.

He jabbed Seven in the ribs with the muzzle of his Browning pistol, then stepped inside the previously hidden elevator.

The compact FN Model Baby Browning pistol spit twice, once to the left of Jean-Michel, once to the right.

Colonel Cho shouted, arriving breathlessly at the command car, a Type 64 Browning pistol in his hand.