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Abstract

An automatic pistol comprises a frame, a barrel slidable on the frame and having a cartridge-receiving rear end, a breech slidable on the frame and engageable over the rear end of the barrel to form a cartridge chamber, and firing mechanism including a firing element and a firing pin operatively linked thereto. The element is movable on the breech toward and away from the barrel between a rear position in which the firing pin is out of the cartridge chamber and a front position with the firing pin projecting forward into the cartridge chamber for firing a cartridge in the chamber when the firing element moves from the rear to the front position. A spring is braced against the element and urges same into the front position. A trigger is movable on the frame between an actuated and an unactuated position. An abutment engageable with the firing element in an intermediate position thereof between its front and rear positions is displaceable backward on the frame. A link is connected between the trigger and the abutment for displacing same backward into the rear position from the intermediate position on displacement of the trigger from the unactuated to the actuated position and for displacing the abutment out of operative engagement with the firing element on displacement of the trigger into the actuated position for displacement of the firing element by the spring means into the front position. Thus the starting position of the abutment for the firing bolt or hammer is at an intermediate location in the travel path of same.

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