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Colt Pistol

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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, / Colt-Browning, pistol.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Colt Pistol'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/colt-pistol.html. 1828.
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