The pilots who qualify will be allowed to carry semi-automatic pistols on domestic US flights served by American carriers.

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And in Los Angeles, itself, the Police Commission voted to allow officers to carry .45-caliber semi-automatic pistols.

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U.S. Capitol Police carry 40-caliber semi-automatic pistols, called Glock 22s.

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The latter restriction amounts to a ban on most formerly-legal semi-automatic weapons, both pistols and long guns, since no seven- round magazines exist on the market.

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Armed with pistols, some rifles and automatic weapons, and hand-made grenades, the resistance fighters attacked the Germans and their allies when they tried to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943.

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