Fig wrapped the compact pistol in the shoe bag so it wouldn't rattle, and he placed the bag inside the hollow body of the fire truck.

A compact pistol was in a holster there.

It is a third-generation version of their 69 series, which were compact 9mm pistols with double-column magazines.

Nobody paid any attention; annoyed, he pulled out the compact pistol the trade machine had fabricated for him and fired into the ceiling.

Seeing the popularity of these compact pistols, other pistolsmiths began offering similar conversions on customers' 1911s.

Detonics is most notably known for its innovative design of compact 1911-style pistols, such as the Combat Master.

This allowed Browning to design compact pistols for high-powered cartridges.

These single-stack magazines allow for slender, compact pistols that have proven popular with the buying public.

This pistol began the trend towards the production by other manufacturers of compact 1911-style pistols, which continues to the present day.

Its popularity was temporarily overshadowed with the wide-scale availability of compact semi-automatic pistols in the 1980s and their gradual adoption by police in the 1990s.