Firearms

Pistols

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.300 Blackout AR Pistol

.300 Blackout AR Pistol The cartridge built so a short barrel would stop being a compromise, worked through from the numbers: velocity against barrel length measured rather than assumed, why supersonic and subsonic are really two cartridges sharing a case, the brace-and-SBR law tracked to the agency’s own filings, and the chambering mistake that destroys the rifle. Live

FP-45 Liberator

FP-45 Liberator The million-unit stamped-steel OSS single-shot .45 — built in 11 weeks, mostly never dropped. Live

Mauser C96 Broomhandle

Mauser C96 Broomhandle The real-firearm reference — 9×19 build target, also the canonical C96 donor for prop builds. Live

Protector Palm Pistol

Protector Palm Pistol Turbiaux's 1883 squeeze-fired palm pistol — a radial turret magazine in a disc you hide in your fist. Live

Remington XP-100

Remington XP-100 The bolt-action pistol Remington built around a cartridge designed for it, told through the record rather than the folklore: ten factory chamberings with the years Remington itself gives, ballistics computed as a pistol instead of borrowed from rifle barrels, and what the single-shot and the XP-100R repeater are each actually for. Live