Semiautomatic pistol and Semiautomatic firearm

Semiautomatic pistol noun - A pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously.

Semiautomatic firearm and semiautomatic pistol are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Semiautomatic firearm" instead a noun phrase "Semiautomatic pistol".

Semiautomatic firearm noun - An autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger.

Semiautomatic pistol and semiautomatic firearm are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Semiautomatic pistol" with "Semiautomatic firearm", this phrases are similar.