This type of gun fires a single cartridge that ejects the spent cartridge case and reloads itself each time the trigger is pulled.
What is a Semiautomatic Handgun?
100
A single unit of ammunition made up of a projectile, propellant, and primer, surrounded by the casing.
What is a cartridge?
200
The current number of chapters in Colorado
What is 14?
200
Anyone can call out this phrase on a range to halt shooting if an unsafe condition is observed.
What is cease fire, cease fire, cease fire?
200
A handgun that features a magazine which holds cartridges that self-load into the firing chamber automatically.
What is a semiautomatic handgun?
200
This causes the projectile to spin as it flies through the air? It also improves accuracy and marks the bullet with unique characteristics.
What is rifling?
200
Made of lead, sometimes jacketed with brass, copper or steel.
What is a bullet?
300
Colorado State Co-Leaders
Who are Brenda Blake and Carmen Fulenwider (Brenda & Carmen)
300
A dangerous gun malfunction in which the cartridge does not have enough force to exit the barrel and becomes stuck.
What is squib?
300
Step 1: Follow all fundamental rules of firearms safety Step 2: Load the full magazine into the magazine well Step 3: Pull back and release on the slide to chamber a round
What is how to load a semiautomatic handgun?
300
This part of a firearm hits the primer in a cartridge and causes it to explode.
What is the firing pin?
300
Normally made of brass or copper dust held together with a resin material that disintegrates upon impact with steel or concrete.
What is frangible?
400
TWAW's mission
What is Educate, Equip, and Empower women
400
An empty cartridge case jams in the ejection port instead of being thrown clear.
What is a stovepipe?
400
Step 1: follow all fundamental rules of firearms safety Step 2: Release and remove the magazine Step 3: Eject any cartridge that may still be in the pistol's chamber Step 4: Lock slide to the rear Step 5: Visually and physically verify that there is no round in the chamber
What is how to unload a semiautomatic handgun?
400
A device that holds the cartridges.
What is the magazine?
400
Is the measurement used to identify different cartridge sizes.
What is caliber?
500
This is the age you must be in Colorado to join TWAW
What is 18?
500
The spent casing remains lodged in the chamber after firing AND the slide picks up a second round from the magazine mashing it into the first.
What is a double feed?
500
This red haired Loony Tunes character yields a revolver in each hand
Who is Yosemite Sam
500
This holds the firing mechanism in the semiautomatic firearm.
What is the slide?
500
The most damaging type of handgun bullet, opens up like a flower.