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Fully automatic handgun
A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Machine pistolA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Personalized training model for 10 m air pistol through machine learning: a pilot studyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Contemporary MusiciansThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Air Target Pistol, Improved Peat MachineCited 0 times
- Go sideways: Submachine gunA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Personal defense weaponA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Air Target Pistol, Improved Peat Machine
Dispersion Analysis of Rounds Fired from a Glauberyt Machine Pistol
Pistol Ring Gap Inspection under Free State Based on Machine Vision
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Contemporary MusiciansLeigh Ann Deremer · 2001- 📕Textbook of automatic pistolsR. K. Wilson · 1943
Famous Pistols and Hand GunsA. J. R. Cormack · 1977
Modern Small ArmsIan V. Hogg · 1983
Illustrated History of Small ArmsChant, Christopher. · 1996- 📕Small armsMartin J. Dougherty · 2013
GunDK Publishing · 2007
The Illustrated History of Pistols Revolvers and Submachine GunsWill Fowler · 2013
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