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A hangun is a firearm designed to be held in the hand when used. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from their larger cousins: long guns such as rifles and shotguns, mounted weapons such as machine guns and autocannons, and larger weapons such as artillery.

Trivia about pistol

  • From an imitative Czech word for "whistle", it's any small gun held & fired with one hand
  • Walther PPK
  • Revolutionary in the 15th century, the matchlock was a type of this weapon

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