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A P226 with breech closed (top) and opened (bottom). On the bottom view, the slide is locked in place by the slide stop.

A slide stop, sometimes referred to as a slide lock or slide release, is a function on a semi-automatic handgun that both visually indicates when it has expended all loaded ammunition and facilitates faster reloading by pulling back the slide or depressing the slide lock to advance the first round of a new magazine.