

The slide, which acts as the bolt carrier, has a small piston on the front that fits into this cylinder. These travel forward through a small tube under the barrel, to a cylinder underneath the front of the barrel. When a round is fired, gases are ported out through a small hole in the barrel in front of the chamber. The Desert Eagle uses a gas-operated ejection/chambering mechanism normally found in rifles, as opposed to the short recoil or blowback designs most commonly seen in semi-automatic pistols. With the safety off, pulling the trigger releases the hammer to fall downward, hitting the firing pin and causing the chambered round to discharge. The ambidextrous safety switch rotates a drum mechanism which sits over the firing pin, causing the firing pin to lock in, which prevents it from moving forward and reduces the possibility of the gun discharging accidentally.
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The pistol is fired by a single action hammer, and has a manual safety switch on the slide. A second patent application was filed in December 1985, after the basic design had been refined by IMI Systems (Israel Military Industries) for production, and this is the form that went into production.

This established the basic layout of the Desert Eagle. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute, who filed a US patent application for a mechanism for a gas-actuated pistol in January 1983. The design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. Interchangeable barrels for a Desert Eagle Mark I. Magnum Research has marketed various versions of the short recoil Jericho 941 pistol under the Baby Eagle and Desert Eagle Pistol names these weapons are not directly related to the Desert Eagle but share a similar visual design. Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research in 2010. Since December 2009, the Desert Eagle Pistol has been produced in the United States at MRI's Pillager, Minnesota, facility. In 1998, MRI moved manufacturing back to IMI, which later commercialized its small arms branch under the name Israel Weapon Industries. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle, the design was further refined by (and was also manufactured by) Israel Military Industries (IMI), until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense, in Saco, Maine. 50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol. The Desert Eagle (colloquially, sometimes Deagle) is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the. 357/44 Bain & Davis (IMI prototype only) Magnum Research and Israel Military Industries
