Pistols

Pistols are a type of weapon in surviv.io. The M9, G18C, and M93R use 9mm ammunition, the OT-38 and OTs-38 uses 7.62mm ammunition, the DEagle 50 uses .50 AE ammunition, the Peacemaker and M1911 uses .45 ACP, and the Flare Gun uses Flare ammunition. The M9, M1911 and DEagle 50 are semi-automatic, whilst the OT-38 and OTs-38 is double-action, the Peacemaker is single-action, the G18C is automatic, the M93R is burst, and the flare gun is single-shot. They may all be dual wielded, and this doubles their capacity and fire rate (with the exceptions of M9, DEagle 50, and M93R, where the fire rate is increased, but not doubled, and the Peacemaker, where the fire rate is actually slowed down, but also nearly doubles their reload times. When duel wielding pistols, your accuracy becomes less, and longer reload time, but longer clip and bigger damage.

Technical
Pistols are distinguished by their ability to be dual-wielded if you collect identical pistols; the player can fire two pistols of the same type at once. They are typically weaker than their full-sized equivalents, with their primary drawback usually being low magazine capacity. When you collect two identical pistols, they automatically turn into dual-wielded pistols automatically, allowing the user to focus on shooting. The dual-wielding ability was added in the update.

Strategies

 * Generally speaking, Pistols are weaker versions of other guns in the game.
 * A good reason to take a Pistol is the potential to later find another pistol of the same type. Doing this will allow you to dual-wield these pistols, sacrificing some accuracy for much greater effectiveness at close range.

Trivia

 * Originally, the Flare Gun was the only pistol that couldn't be dual wielded, however this has been changed in the v0.7.4 update.
 * The Peacemaker and OTs-38 are revolvers in real life.
 * The OT-38 is a fictional version of the OTs-38.
 * Among all the pistols, OTs-38, Flare Gun, and G18C can only be dropped as dual variant in a single item, and those two are the only weapons that can be spawned as dual.