In the service pistol, the first trigger pull is double action; what describes subsequent shots?

• A. Single action
• B. Double action
• C. No action
• D. Triple action

Answer: (A)

In this service pistol, the system is double-action/single-action. The first trigger pull is double action, which both cocks and releases the hammer to fire the shot. After the slide cycles, the hammer remains cocked, so for the next shots the trigger only releases the already cocked hammer. That lighter, shorter pull is what defines the subsequent shots as single action. The other possibilities don’t fit because no action isn’t a mode here, and triple action doesn’t exist in this design; re-cocking the hammer on every pull would also require a double-action pull each time, which isn’t the case after the first shot.