Engineering:Personal weapon

Semi-automatic pistol Grand Power K100 Target produced in Slovakia - an example of a personal firearm.

Collection of early modern swords (17th to 18th centuries) at the George F. Harding Collection of Arms and Armor, the Art Institute of Chicago.

A personal weapon or ordnance weapon is a weapon that is issued to an individual member of a military or paramilitary unit, e.g. to individual soldiers. These weapons in pre-modern contexts tended to be melee weapons. In modern contexts, this includes Small arms.

See also

• List of firearms
• List of mêlée weapons