Some guns have lights, lasers, rifle scopes, bipods, and other accessories to identify a target or aid in marksmanship. Today’s firearms have magazines capable of holding up to 30 or more bullets, or more than one barrel, or can fire more than one bullet per pull of the trigger.
The pressure change forces the bullet out of the casing and down the barrel toward the target.Īdmittedly, the rapid evolution of guns makes it hard to look at them and see their basic components-a trigger, firing pin, and tubes. That explosion ignites the gunpowder, which is tucked inside the shell casing surrounding the bullet. Mechanically speaking, the trigger is the catalyst that sets a chain of events off starting with the release of the firing pin which flies forward, striking a tiny explosive charge located in the base of the bullet. In the most basic sense, guns work like this: A bullet is loaded into the rear of the barrel, which is a tube connected to the firing pin. This is a broad definition that covers everything from potato guns to fully automatic machine guns, but it provides the basic definition of what a gun is and how it works.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) defines a firearm as, “Any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.” In other words: If you have a tube and a projectile, and the projectile is designed to fly out of the tube as the result of an explosion, you have a firearm.
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