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

A mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling. Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do ...

sawed-off shotgun

Military; Firearms

A type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel and often a shorter or deleted stock.

short-barreled shotgun (sbs)

Military; Firearms

A type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel and often a shorter or deleted stock.

selective fire

Military; Firearms

A firearm that fires semi–automatically and at least one automatic mode by means of a selector depending on the weapon's design. Some selective fire weapons utilize burst fire mechanisms to limit the ...

semi-wadcutter (SWC)

Military; Firearms

A type of all-purpose bullet commonly used in revolvers which combines features of the wadcutter target bullet and traditional round nosed revolver bullets, and is used in both revolver and pistol ...