Firearm

A firearm comprising:

• a receiver with a chamber for a plurality of cartridges or for a cartridge-holding magazine,
• a longitudinally extending barrel in the receiver and having a muzzle at a longitudinal front end of the barrel and a breech at an opposite rear end of the barrel,
• a bolt movable longitudinally of the barrel relative to the receiver,
• a recoil spring biasing the bolt longitudinally for conveying cartridges from the chamber or from the magazine into the breech or for conveying cartridge cases to an ejection port,
• a gas brake in the receiver and including a cylinder extending parallel to the barrel and connected to the interior of the barrel via a gas port and a piston movable within the cylinder and coupled to the bolt,
• a slide completely formed with the bolt and inside the receiver over the entire path of longitudinal movement of the slide during firing and reloading, the slide having two webs extending parallel to the barrel in the receiver and a coupling section for coupling to the piston of the gas brake,
• a cover displaceable relative to the receiver longitudinally of the barrel, and
• a cover spring biasing the cover toward a closed position, the cover having a driver section projecting inward into the receiver and couplable to the slide for manual reloading when the cover is moved longitudinally rearward but decoupled from the slide when the cover is in a closed position.