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  2. Stock (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing ...

  3. Gunsmith - Wikipedia

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    The highest level of custom-made firearms usually start out as several pieces of blank steel stock or rough forged parts, a slab (stock blank) of walnut; steel tubes with rifled or smooth holes ("bores") drilled their length. Many smaller detail parts are fabricated in-house and are fitted by the maker.

  4. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    Laser sight: an attachment that projects a laser beam onto the target, providing a rough point of impact. Leading: The act of aiming a firearm in front of a moving target, to compensate for the bullet's travel time. Length of pull: The distance between the trigger and the butt end of the shoulder stock of a rifle or shotgun. Lever-action rifle

  5. Firearm malfunction - Wikipedia

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    Most modern firearms are designed to not be capable of firing when significantly out-of-battery. As such, a firearm that is out-of-battery typically cannot be fired, which is why this is a type of firearm malfunction. A dangerous situation can occur when a chambered round fires when the firearm is out-of-battery (called an out-of-battery ...

  6. Richmond rifle - Wikipedia

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    Gunstock production at Macon peaked at two thousand per month in April 1863. Attempts were made to harvest stock blanks in North Carolina when the supply of captured gun stocks was exhausted, but Union sympathizers burned the North Carolina sawmill. Gunstock machinery was evacuated from Macon to avoid Sherman's March to the Sea. Production at ...

  7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    He’d lost a good friend in combat, 22-year-old Lance Cpl. William H. Crouse IV, of Woodruff, S.C. Martz’s unit, 1st Battalion 10th Marines, had taken other casualties. Now, Martz was leading his guys out on daily foot patrols through some of the same terrain and most heavily contested places in Afghanistan.

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In the push to fully privatize the system and phase out state-run facilities, Florida has continued both to renew YSI’s contracts and to award the company new ones. Last year, Florida opted not to extend YSI’s contract to oversee Thompson Academy, the facility where Jerry Blanton had blown the whistle and lost his job eight years earlier.

  9. Forearm (firearm component) - Wikipedia

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    In firearms, the forearm (also known as the fore-end/forend, handguard or forestock) is a section of a gunstock between the receiver and the muzzle. It is used as a gripping surface to hold the gun steady and is usually made out of heat-insulating material such as wood or reinforced plastic .

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