Handgun
Handguns are weapons designed to be fired with a single manipulator from a sophont.
- They are a type of weapon generally classified as a sidearm.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Handguns are a class of sidearm whose accepted definition generally describes a sidearm of the slug-thrower KEW class that is fired with a single hand. Handguns are generally single-shot, repeating, or semi-automatic (self-loading) weapons, although a few weapons of pistol size and caliber in this category are capable of burst fire, and are sometimes informally known as Assault Pistols.
Selected Handguns[edit]
Non-Lethal:
Early Black-Powder Propellant Handguns:
Semi-automatic self-loading Handgun:
- Autopistol (Generic)
Clandestine/Non-detectable Handguns:
- Body Pistol (Generic)
- Polymer One-shot Pistol
Electromagntic-propelled Coil/Rail Handgun:
- Gauss Pistol (Generic)
- Magrail Pistol
Repeating Handguns:
- Revolver (Generic)
Secondary Propellant & Special Ammo:
- Rocket Pistol (Generic/Secondary Propellant)
- Gyrojet Pistol (Solid Fuel)
- Gyroc Pistol (Liquid Fuel)
- Snub Gun (Generic/Special Ammo)
- Snub Revolver (SnR-8) (Repeating)
- Snub Pistol (SnP-8) (Semi-automatic/Basic)
- Snub Pistol (SnAP-10) (Semi-automatic/Burst)
- Combat Snub Pistol (SnAcP-13) (Secondary Propellant/Semi-automatic/Burst)
Universal-user/configurable:
- cP859(u-x) Staple Gun (Semi-automatic/Burst)
- The following weapons are not slug-throwers and thus not generally considered to fall into the general category of "handguns", but can nevertheless be carried as a sidearm and fired with one hand:
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- Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science