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This photo gallery is an excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Handguns.
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Sorry but the author seems to have wondered very far from the subject, a combat hand gun must be simple and rel1able under the worst of conditions, then to top it off the round it fires must have stopping power. outside of the plain jane 1911, the handguns shown are not combat handguns