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Charging handle being pulled on an M2 machine gun. The cocking handle, also known as charging handle or bolt handle, is a device on a firearm which, when manipulated, results in the bolt being pulled to the rear, putting the hammer/striker into a spring-loaded ("cocked") "ready and set" position, allowing the operator to open the breech and eject any spent/unwanted cartridge/shell from the ...
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Cocking handle, a device on a firearm that results in the hammer or striker being cocked or moved to the ready position; Cocking, West Sussex, a village, parish, and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England; Cocking-cloth, a device used for catching pheasants; Edward Cocking (born 1931), British plant scientist
The P9S trigger operates as a traditional double action. There is a lever on the left side of the pistol grip to both decock a cocked hammer or to manually re-cock it for a single action first shot, a feature first observed on the Sauer 38H. A further function of the decocking lever is to release the slide stop.
From the top: striker-fired, linear hammer with free-floating firing pin, hammer-fired with free-floating firing pin, and hammer-fired with integral firing pin. The hammer is a part of a firearm that is used to strike the percussion cap/primer, or a separate firing pin, [1] to ignite the propellant and fire the projectile.
Free gun: A term for a General Purpose Machine Gun used by Door gunners that is not installed on a weapon mount but a bungee/sling allowing more free movement. Frizzen: An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms. The flint scraping the steel throws a shower of sparks into the flash pan.
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The gas cylinder is located under the barrel and the gas piston is connected to the slide. The M-77B retains the Type 77's unique "trigger guard cocking system". There is a thumb and a magazine safety and a fixed, forward, and adjustable three-dot rear sights. The magazine uses a single stacked nine-round magazine. [10]