Firearms

Firearms

Guns such as pistols or rifles that use explosives to shoot bullets. These are usually small arms as compared to big weapon systems such as artillery cannons or missiles.

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Firearms

The term describing the fully assembled set of components that create the trigger mechanism. This includes, but is not limited to, the trigger, trigger shear, hammer shear and trigger reset spring. ...

furnature

Military; Firearms

Furnature is a slang term to describe the fittings on a rifle, namely the heat cowl, foregrip and stock. It originated from the fact that older military rifles (M1A1, Mosin Nagant, Krag etc), and ...

return spring

Military; Firearms

The spring that returns the bolt or slide of the firearm to the closed position. In pistols the return spring is usually either bound around the barrel, or around the guide-rod should there be one. ...

squad automatic weapon (SAW)

Military; Firearms

The SAW is a select fire receiver based rifle usually equipped with a high-capacity magazine and, in most cases, will have a belt-fed system. The purpose of a SAW is to provide sustained covering ...

muzzle

Military; Firearms

The very end of the barrel, where the projectile leaves the firearm. The muzzle may be plain, threaded or ventilated.

rifling

Military; Firearms

Grooves cut into the inside of the barrel to apply spin to the projectile to stabilise its flight. Rifling is either made from straight grooves, or a polygon which curves down the barrel in a helical ...

hammer bite

Military; Firearms

The action of an external hammer pinching or poking the web of the operator's shooting hand between the thumb and fore-finger when the gun is fired. Some handguns prone to this are the M1911 pistol ...