Reply #289: All pistols and revolvers "fire repeatedly without reloading."

[benEzra]

Whatever Ferguson used was more than a pistol -- and enabled him fire repeatedly without reloading -- presumably a clip?

Pistols and revolvers "fire repeatedly without reloading." That's how guns work.

Here is the model of gun that Colin Ferguson used:



Ruger P-89 9mm, at the time one of the most popular civilian pistols in America, and used by plenty of police departments as well.

Like practically all pistols, it uses a magazine. (BTW, a clip is a device sometimes used for inserting ammunition into a magazine or into the cylinder of a revolver.)



Left, clip; right, magazine.