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>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 I shoot
very often but the idea of throwing money downrange at that rate
offends my sensibilities.

>I belive it is imported from Israel and is gas operated.  It comes in
>.357Mag, .44Mag, etc.

	If you *really* want to throw money downrange it a hurry, it
also comes in .50 cal.

>	How do gas operated hanguns function ?

	From the quick look I got at the mechanism, without taking
it apart, it bears a lot of superficial similarities to an M16's
action. Most gas-operated weapons bleed a little of the pressure
off from near the muzzle, and channel it back to the breech with
a gas tube. 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.

mjr.