IMI Desert Eagle

"Hey, what's this? Oh, that's my favorite pistol. The IMI Desert Eagle. I like this weapon. Boy, if I use this one, maybe this will work to shoot at North Korean bastards that get into Guam's way. That'll be fine if I used to handle this pistol'."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Home Sweet Home

The IMI Desert Eagle is a semi-automatic handgun notable for chambering the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol. Magnum Research Inc. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle. The design was refined and the pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine, USA. In 1998, MRI moved manufacturing back to IMI, which later commercialized its small arms branch under the name Israel Weapon Industries. Since 2009, the Desert Eagle Pistol has been produced in the United States at MRI's Pillager, Minnesota, USA facility. Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research in 2010.