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Spivey's .45 caliber, like most firearms, ejects casingsbehind and to the right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025

Hours later he would come ashore with a .45 pistol, pencils, and a sketchbook.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

In one scene, Baldwin fired his long-barreled Colt .45 as he darted up a chaparral-covered hill.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

He has maintained he did not pull the trigger of the Colt .45 pistol and only drew back its hammer.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024

In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick