Carbine Parts
This part is the “handle” that you hold with your shooting hand.
What is the pistol grip?
This type of gun is designed to be fired from the shoulder and can shoot many types of ammunition.
What is a rifle?
The first thing you should do if you find a gun.
What is STOP, Don’t Touch, Run Away, Tell an Adult?
The part you squeeze to fire the gun.
What is the trigger?
Safer place for ammo: a locked safe or a nightstand drawer?
What is a locked safe?
The part at the end of the barrel that helps reduce noise or flash.
What is the muzzle (or flash hider)?
This small firearm is designed to be held and fired with one hand.
What is a handgun or pistol?
The direction the muzzle should always point.
What is a safe direction?
The part you look through to aim.
What are the sights?
Safer action: Point the gun at the floor or wave it around?
What is point it at the floor (safe direction)?
This part holds the ammunition before it is fed into the chamber.
What is the magazine?
A firearm with a smooth barrel that fires shells full of pellets.
What is a shotgun?
Your finger should stay here until you are ready to shoot.
What is outside the trigger guard or along the frame?
The part that holds the bullets in a revolver.
What is the cylinder?
Better way to learn: Ask a trained adult or watch a random online video?
What is ask a trained adult?
The moving piece that loads and ejects the cartridge.
What is the bolt carrier group?
A type of rifle that uses the energy of the fired cartridge to load the next round automatically.
What is a semi-automatic rifle?
Treat every firearm as if it is this.
What is loaded?
The spring-loaded device that feeds cartridges into a semi-automatic pistol.
What is the magazine?
More secure: Cable lock or leaving the gun unloaded but unlocked?
What is using a cable lock?
The long tube where the bullet travels when fired.
What is the Barrel?
Firearms that require the shooter to manually cycle the action for each shot, such as lever or bolt action
What are manual-action firearms?
Before cleaning a firearm, you must first do this.
What is unload and check the chamber?
The action used to load a round into the chamber before firing.
What is racking the slide?
True or False: You can always tell if a gun is unloaded just by looking at it.
What is False?