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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A generally non-magnifying optical device that has an optically collimated reticle, allowing the user to look through a partially reflecting glass element and see a parallax free cross hair or other ...

Rimfire

Military; Firearms

A type of firearm cartridge that used a firing pin which strikes the base's rim, instead of striking the primer cap at the centre of the base of the cartridge to ignite it (as in a centerfire ...

Rolling block

Military; Firearms

A form of firearm action where the sealing of the breech is done with a circular shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin. The breechblock is locked into place by the hammer, thus preventing the ...

Rifling

Military; Firearms

Helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which imparts a spin to a projectile around its long axis. This spin serves to gyroscopically stabilise the projectile, improving its aerodynamic ...