pistols worked for revolvers way back yon... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYaN5IGQdIA
However, as with the terms "clip" and "magazine", the dictionary defines "words in common usage", very different from an expert in a particular field. A Beagle thus becomes a "Thoroughbred" (when they really mean, "purebred"),and a "Magazine" becomes a "clip"...because mouth breathing, knuckle draggers cannot seem to distinguish the difference.
Oh dear, now you're raising the specter of the long-standing dispute about where to draw the line between a gun, a howitzer, and a mortar!T. O'Heir said:Guns are artillery pieces to start.
Carguychris: Oh dear, now you're raising the specter of the long-standing dispute about where to draw the line between a gun, a howitzer, and a mortar!
I don't distinguish between magazine and clip but then I am a mouth breathing knuckle dragger. They've been clips to me for well over 50 years, they're going to stay that way.
I agreeI tend to give the originator more credence in nomenclature.
When I read an 1852 advertisement for a Colt Revolving Pistol, I have no trouble telling it from the firearm described in the 1900 brochure for the Automatic Colt Pistol; even though both usages will light up the monitors of the Internet Experts.
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Most of them did use clips, I'd also add arguing terminology in a foxhole under fire would be a offence warranting a beating IMHOI have no complaint with the mouth breathing knuckle draggers of my parents' generation who loaded their guns with "clips" so as to fight the Axis, either.
All are considered cannon, 15mm and larger.
"...All guns are guns, are they not?..." Nope. Guns are artillery pieces to start.
A gun is direct fire, high pressure/velocity ammunition. A howitizer is a high angle firing cannon, firing lower pressure ammunition, but capable of direct fire also. A mortar is a high angle fire only, and fires the lowest pressure ammunition.
My old dictionary says a pistol is a firearm designed to be held and fired with one hand.
And that's all it says.
Works for me. I'd say that pretty much covers it.
I realize that to some people today, Pluto is not a planet, rabbits are not rodents anymore, and gay is used for something other than light hearted and frolicsome. However, on this matter, I refuse to budge.
common usage considers pistols to be the automatic variety only.
pis·tol
[ˈpistl]
NOUN
a small firearm designed to be held in one hand.
synonyms: revolver · gun · handgun · sidearm · automatic ·
cheapshooter said:Pistol/revolver, same thing.
pistol
noun pis·tol \ˈpis-təl\
1: a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel