Previously, we looked at the most common type of locking mechanism for rifles, but what about handguns? Well, today we’ll be looking at tilting-barrel locking, a method used in virtually every modern locked-breech handgun today. Tilting barrel locking was invented by that Utahn gun maestro, John Moses Browning, as an evolution of a translating barrel mechanism […]
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Operating Mechanisms 201: Tilting Barrel Locking