Tip-up barrel

Tip-up barrel on a .32 ACP Beretta pistol
Tip-up barrel on a .25 ACP Beretta Jetfire pistol

Tip-up barrel is a semi-automatic pistol in which the first round in the chamber is not fed from a magazine, but is inserted directly into the chamber via a barrel which swings upwards to admit it. The particular advantage of the tip-up barrel is that it allows users to chamber a round who may lack sufficient hand or arm strength to rack the slide on a conventional semi-automatic pistol.[1]

Tip-up pistols

References

  1. ↑ Jerry Ahern (5 October 2010). Gun Digest Buyer's Guide to Concealed-Carry Handguns. Gun Digest Books. pp. 220–. ISBN 1-4402-1743-2.
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