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  2. Clip (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A stripper clip (American English) or charger clip (Commonwealth English) is a speedloader that holds several pistol or rifle cartridges as a unit for easier loading into a firearm's internal box magazine. After the bolt is opened and the stripper clip is placed in position (generally in a slot on the receiver or bolt), the cartridges are ...

  3. BB gun - Wikipedia

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    BB pistol with CO 2 cartridges and BBs. A BB gun is a type of air gun designed to shoot metallic spherical projectiles called BBs (not to be confused with similar-looking bearing balls), which are approximately the same size as BB-size lead birdshot used in shotguns (0.180 in or 4.6 mm in diameter).

  4. List of clip-fed firearms - Wikipedia

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    Semi-automatic pistol 7.62×25mm 9×19mm Parabellum German Empire Stripper clip with internal box magazine. Steyr M1912: Semi-automatic pistol Machine pistol 9×23mm Steyr 9×19mm Parabellum Austria-Hungary Stripper clip with 8-round internal magazine. Machine pistol variant with 16-round internal magazine. Mosin-Nagant: Bolt-action rifle 7.62 ...

  5. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    This type is used on the Lewis Gun, Vickers K, Bren Gun (only used in anti-aircraft mountings), [59] Degtyaryov light machine gun, and American-180 submachine gun. A highly unusual example was found on the Type 89 machine gun fed from two 45-round quadrant-shaped pan magazines (each magazine held nine of the five-round stripper clips).

  6. Glock switches: How use of small device that makes guns ... - AOL

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    A Glock switch can turn a firearm into a machine gun, a weapon that was banned nationwide 89 years ago and is known for its ability to spray bullets in quick succession.

  7. Air gun - Wikipedia

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    A para-athlete competing with a match air rifle A collection of lever-action, spring-piston air rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.

  8. Yes, ‘Glock Switches’ Can Turn a Firearm Into an ... - AOL

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    But guns with bump stocks are still semiautomatic weapons—the trigger must be compressed each time they fire, even if that compression is assisted by a bump stock. Glock switches, however, are a ...

  9. Blowback (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    In firearms, a blowback system is generally defined as an operating system in which energy to operate the firearm's various mechanisms, and automate the loading of another cartridge, is derived from the inertia of the spent cartridge case being pushed out the rear of the chamber by rapidly expanding gases produced by a burning propellant, typically gunpowder. [3]