Pistol (disambiguation)

A pistol is a small handheld firearm but may also refer to:

Arms

  • Magnetic pistol, on a naval mine or torpedo, fuze for detonation by a nearby magnetic mass
  • Aerial bomb fuze
  • Pistol squat, variant of lower body exercise used in strength training
  • The Pistol Star, an extremely luminous star in the Milky Way galaxy
  • Pistol offense, an offensive strategy in American football
  • A bid in some variants of the dominoes game 42

People

Film

Music

gollark: I would probably just limit it to sending people through cheap metal detectors before they board, or something.
gollark: It does not. But there are other defenses against that which have been implemented.
gollark: It's actually just a jobs program for vaguely sociopathic idiots.
gollark: Any good terrorist could surely just bomb the large amount of people in the "security" queues.
gollark: They run you through a bunch of scanning and disallow any "dangerous" thing for no specified reason. It's like someone thought "hmm, how can we make people not want to do air travel?".

See also

  • Pistil, part of a flower
  • Pistole, a type of coin
  • Pistol Pete (disambiguation), nickname and fictional character name
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