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A firearm small enough to point and consequential enough to regret.
means A short-barreled firearm designed to be held and fired with one or both hands, like pistols and revolvers.
from From plain German efficiency: hand plus gun, a literal label coined in the 1300s to distinguish small arms from the cannons that needed a wagon.
Two campsRevolvers spin cylinders; pistols feed from magazines.
Old wordPredates the revolver by roughly five centuries.
Pocket physicsRecoil scales brutally as size shrinks.