Firearms 1 Test Answered Correctly

Any lethal weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet, or other missile can be discharged. Section 57 Firearms Act 1968 - What is a Firearm? A hand-fired weapon that does not contain any explosive. When trigger is pulled, pellet is expelled by release of compressed gas. Suitable for short-distance shooting. - Air-gun A hand-fired weapon Includes pistols and revolvers Suitable for short-distance shooting - Handgun Automatically loading weapon. Capable of rapidly firing multiple rounds. - Machine-gun A weapon fired from the shoulder, with a rifled bore. Suitable for long-distance shooting. - Rifle Smooth bored barrel. Ammunition is small spherical pellets in a plastic cartridge. Suitable for short-distance shooting. - Shotgun 1) ID of a bullet, cartridge case, or other ammunition component as having been fired by or in a particular firearm. 2)The possibility of such ID can be attributed to specific machining processes used in the manufacture of firearms - Firearms Examination Part of a firearm that loads, fires and ejects a cartridge - Action The metal tube through which the bullet is fired - Barrel Inside of the barrel 'Smoothbore' weapons (typically shot guns) have no rifling Most handguns and rifles have 'rifling' - Bore The end of the barrel attached to the action - Breech The end of the bullet is blunted - 'Round-nose'