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With the development of the handgun in the 19th century, gunsmiths had finally achieved the goal of a practical capability for delivering multiple loads to one musket in a Buy Handguns jam in quick succession |
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| Revolvers feed ammunition via the rotation of a cartridge-filled cylinder, in which each cartridge is contained in its own ignition chamber, and is sequentially brought into alignment with the weapon's receptacle by a mechanism linked to the weapon's trigger (double-action) or its hammer (single-action) |
| These nominally cylindrical chambers, usually numbering between five and ten depending on the extension of the pistol and the highness of the cartridge being fired, are bored through the cylinder so that their axes are parallel to the cylinder's axis of rotation; thus, as the cylinder rotates, the chambers revolve about the cylinder's axis. |
Some terms that have been, or still are, passed down as synonyms for "semi-automatic pistol" are automatic pistol, autopistol, self-loading pistol and selfloader.