parts of a guns
is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns.
What is a barrel?
also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile
What is a cartridge?
the raised portions between the grooves inside the barrel after the spiral grooves are cut to produce the rifling.
What is a land?
is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing
What is a semiautomatic?
the interior of the barrel of a firearm.
What is a bore?
is the chemical or device responsible for initiating the propellant combustion that will propel the projectiles out of the gun barrel.
What is a primer?
The mechanism on a firearm which ejects or expels a cartridge or cartridge case from a firearm.
What is an Ejector?
a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers for firing.
What is a revolver?
the part of the firearm action that closes the breech of a breech loading weapon before or at the moment of firing.
What is a breechblock?
the casing, ordinarily of brass, that contains the propulsive charge and in which the bullet is seated at the neck, with the primer in an open cup at the opposite end.
What is a shell?
an action component that serves to remove spent casings of previously fired cartridges from the chamber
What is an extractor?
a type of weapon that is propelled towards its target.
What is a projectile?
a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gunbarrel.
What is a bullet?
is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter of the barrel.
What is a gauge?
is the upper part that reciprocates with recoil during the gun's operating cycle.
What is a slide?
microscopic contour variations on the surface of the bullet
What is a striations?
used to describe the size of a rifle or handgun bore and the size of cartridges designed for different bores.
What is a caliber?
Inside the barrels of handguns and rifles are spiral impressions called rifling.
What are grooves?
the term for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearms's barrel for imparting a spin to a projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy. It is also the term for creating such grooves.
What is rifling?
unique, microscopic markings on some of these parts. When most firearms are fired, these tool marks are transferred to the discharged cartridge casings and bullets.
What are tool marks?