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In article <1mc0hqINNae3@sol.tis.com> mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>>Does anyone have any comments on the Desert Eagle handgun ?
>	Nice. Expensive. Accurate (at least for me). Pretty rugged.
>I've never bought one because of the hefty price tag that movie fame
>has put on the piece, and the cost of feeding one.

Not that it was cheap before-hand.  It's a lovely piece of engineering,
and the sheer mass makes it pleasantly controllable.

>>I belive it is imported from Israel and is gas operated.

Correct.  The Desert Eagle is built by IMI (Israeli Military Industries).

> The gas blast (after the bullet is on its way out the
>barrel) provides enough energy to cycle the action. It's actually
>a very elegant way to make a semiautomatic gun operate, since the
>timing of the gas is very predictable.

Well, yeah, but considering the original problems with the M16's ball-
powder ammo you'd have to agree that sensitivity to chamber pressure
isn't _always_ a good thing :-)

-dave

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