The Gun Digest® Book of
AUTOMATIC
PISTOLS
ASSEMBLY/DISASSEMBLY
J. B. WOOD
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2007924536
ISBN-13: 978-0-89689-473-0
ISBN-10: 89689-473-8
eISBN: 978-1-44022-401-0
Cover Design by Tom Nelsen
Designed by Patsy Howell
Edited by Ken Ramage
Printed in the United States of America
Dedication
The book is dedicated to my children—Lark Lynne, Heather Lea, Ethan Allen, Nathan Hughes and Michael Paul.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank these people for their help in supplying some of the guns used in this book, or other assistance.
John Yarger and Jim Yarger of Lock & Load Gun Shop, Glenn Lancaster, Gene Wilson, W.M. Stoner, Tom Cook, Lowell Jacobs, Gerlad White, Margie Case, Arch Lenighan, Thomas Hodge, Jr. of Iver Johnson, Bob Angell of Sile, Robert Bonaventure of Beretta, Eugene Sauls and John Leak of Sterling, Russ Moure of Interarms, Al Baker of Galef, John Satterwhite and Jo Anne Powers of Heckler & Koch, Kim Murphy of Colt, Frank Harris and Don Dorr of Kahr Arms, George Colclough of Smith & Wesson, Steve Kehaya and Scott Corrigan of Century Arms, Charlie Crawford of CDNN Inc., Dan Chapman of Downsizer Corporation, Jim Supica of Old Town Station, Cassandra Hamed of Gun Parts Corporation, Bob Roskovich of Dominion Import Group, Bert Stangler, Judith Wood, Cliff Bauman, Robert J. Berger, Joseph J. Schroeder, Dave Shellenberg, Lt. Gary Paul Johnston, Robert S.L. Anderson, Harold A. Murtz, Dennis Reese of Springfield, Inc., Charles Brown and Kelly Walton of Hi-Point, Larry Gilliam of Excel Industries, Charles Flint of RG Industries, Brenda, Barbara and Steve of Fast Foto, Sherry Green, and Larry Seecamp.
Contents
Beretta Model 1934
Bernardelli “Baby”
Bernardelli P. ONE
Bersa Model 383
Browning Buck Mark
Browning BDA 45
