No Blammo w/o Ammo
This cartridge component is a projectile with multiple types, such as round nose, hollow nose, jacketed and full metal jacket.
What is a bullet?
This mechanism actuates the firing sequence. It consists of levers or buttons pressed by the index finger.
What is the trigger?
1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
What are the four rules of firearms safety?
This is a failure of a cartridge to fire after the primer has been struck by the firing pin.
What is a misfire?
This is the backward momentum of a gun when it is discharged.
What is recoil?
What is kick?
What is kick-back?
What is a barrel?
This is another name for an empty cartridge case.
What is brass?
Mechanical, optical or electronic devices used to aim a firearm.
What are sights?
This range command should be shouted repeatedly during a course of fire to stop all shooting in an emergency situation. This can be called by anyone at any time.
What is cease fire?
This is when there is a noticeable delay between the ignition of a cartridge after the primer has been struck by the firing pin.
What is a hang fire?
This is the frequency at which a firearm can launch it's projectiles.
What is rate of fire?
This is the name for a revolver with a short barrel length.
What is a snub nose revolver?
What is a snubby?
What is a blank?
This pistol part resides in the rear, vertical portion of the pistol frame between the grip panels.
What is the backstrap?
This person can be engaged to answer any safety questions while at the range. They can help with malfunctions and might remind you if you aren't following the safety rules.
What is a range safety officer (RSO)?
This firearm malfunction occurs when a fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel and becomes stuck.
What is a squib load?
This is the speed at which a projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun.
What is a magazine?
The diameter of projectile or the distance between the lands in the bore of a firearm.
What is caliber?
This revolver part holds the ammunition in individual chambers that are rotated into firing position by the action of the trigger or hammer.
What is a cylinder?
What is a safety?
This occurs when the web of the shooting had is cut or abraded by the rearward motion of a semi-automatic pistol's slide.
What is slide bite?
What is snake bite?
This is the kinetic energy of a bullet as it is expelled from the muzzle of a firearm.
What is muzzle energy?
This is the act of setting up a telescopic or other sighting system so that the point of impact of a bullet matches the sights at a specified distance.
What is zeroing?
This unit of measurement denotes the amount of powder in a cartridge or the weight of the bullet
What is grain?
These spiral lands and grooves reside in the barrel bore and provide a stabilizing spin to the bullet so it will be more accurate in flight.
What is rifling?
This range command is called out to indicate there is live ammo and loaded firearms on the firing line.
What is "range is hot"?
This is caused when the action of an external hammer pinches or pokes the web of the shooter's hand between the thumb and fore-finger when the gun is fired.
What is hammer bite?
A sub-field of ballistics that consists of studying the behavior of a projectile when it hits its target.
What is terminal ballistics?
This term is abbreviated as AR in firearms such as the AR-15.
What is Armalite Rifle?
These markings are stamped on the bottom of a cartridge case. They usually denote the manufacturer and caliber.
What is a headstamp?
This series of moving parts that allow a firearm to be loaded, fired and unloaded.
What is the action?
When shooting at an un-monitored range, these two kits should be within reach at all times.
This is the status of a firearm before the action has returned to the normal firing position.
What is out-of-battery?
This passivization process is where steel is partially protected against rust and is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish.
What is bluing (blueing)?
This gun part is used to mount accessories such as flashlights and red-dot sights.
What is a Piccatinny rail?
What is a rail?
This term is Latin for "prepare for war". During WWI this term was used for a DWM Luger pistol and remains synonymous today as a designation for 7.65 mm and 9 mm Luger ammunition.
This part in a firearm serves to remove the brass cases of fired ammunition.
What is the extractor?
This range command notifies shooters that they may insert their loaded magazines and chamber the first round. Shooters then stand ready for the next command.
What is "load and make ready"?
A premature, unintended discharge of a firearm that occurs as a round is being loaded into the chamber.
What is a slamfire?
The heading of a bullet, used in external ballistics, that refers to how the Maguns effect causes bullets to move out of a straight line based on their spin.
What is yaw?
This bullet is designed to disintegrate into tiny particles upon impact to minimize penetration for reasons of range safety, to limit environmental impact or to limit the danger behind the intended target.
What is frangible?