Time was, a gun with two barrels was thought quaintly ... s a hundred-odd years old—simply because you don’t know what’s been done to the barrels in the mean time. They may have been rebored ...

Since the hammer is cocked after you load a DA pistol, what’s the point of a trigger that will also cock the hammer? Well, it’s a safety thing. Because some—particularly in law enforcement ...

What’s the deal with single action vs double action ... The only thing the trigger of a single action (SA) handgun does is release a cocked hammer to fire the gun. With a double action (DA ...

With the hammer in the quarter- and half-cock positions, the gun "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger," the report stated. With the hammer fully cocked, the gun "could not be ...