Bolt Pistol

The Bolt Pistol is the compact scion of the mighty boltgun, a one-handed weapon that fires the same self-propelled, mass-reactive shells beloved across the Imperium. Each round punches into the target before detonating within, blowing bodies apart from the inside with a wet thunderclap that shatters morale as surely as bone.

Among the Space Marines it is the assault trooper's companion, paired with chainsword or combat blade so that a warrior may fire as he closes and hack once he arrives. Sergeants and officers carry it as a badge of command, and its bark is the opening note of countless boarding actions and trench-clearings. Where the boltgun reaches, the bolt pistol finishes.

Rugged, forgiving, and endlessly reliable, the bolt pistol endures where finer weapons falter, its simple mechanism venerated in the same litanies that bless its larger kin. A warrior may lose his rifle in the press of melee, but the pistol at his hip never leaves him wanting for the Emperor's thunder.