1. An automatic pistol having a firing chamber and including a frame, a magazine carried by said frame, a barrel carried on said frame and a slide member carried by said frame and movable between a forward position and a rearward position, said magazine being angularly inclined with respect to said barrel, the improvement comprising: said barrel having a portion extending rearward past said magazine, finger elements carried by said slide member for receiving a cartridge carried in said magazine, said finger elements being dimensioned to receive two of said cartridges at one time, said magazine having a spring urging said cartridges out of said magazine and into gripping engagement with said fingers, an ejector opening which opens upon rearward sliding movement of said slide member, a first cam member carried by said frame member and operable upon rearward movement of said slide member to urge the cartridge separated from said magazine upwardly to eject one of said cartridges through said ejector opening and to bring the other of said cartridges into said firing chamber, a second cam member operable to guide said cartridge upwardly between said fingers from a position in alignment with said magazine to a position in alignment with said barrel.