A play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the center when the ball is snapped, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back a few feet behind him. Allows more options in the running game than the shotgun, while retaining many of its passing advantages
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A pistol is a small gun. a small gun you can use with one hand handgun, revolver revolver (pistole, from , from pištal ). Small firearm designed to be operated with one hand. The name may derive from the city of Pistoia, Italy, where handguns were made as early as the 15th century. It was originally a cavalry weapon. The two classes of pistol are revolvers and automatics. Automatics have a mechanism, actuated by the energy of recoil, that feeds cartridges from a magazine in the butt
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The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names
A weapon originally designed, made, and intended to fire a projectile (bullet) from one or more barrels when held in one hand, and having (a) a chamber(s) as an integral part(s) of, or permanently aligned with, the bore(s); and (b) a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand and at an angle to and extending below the line of the bore(s)
Synonymous with "handgun " A gun that is generally held in one hand It may be of the single-shot, multi-barrel, repeating or semi-automatic variety and includes revolvers