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  2. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Firearms with the ability to allow the user to select various fire modes may have separate switches for safety and for mode selection (e.g. Thompson submachine gun) or may have the safety integrated with the mode selector as a fire selector with positions from safe to semi-automatic to full-automatic fire (e.g. M16 rifle).

  3. Shooting range - Wikipedia

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    A shooting range, firing range, gun range or shooting ground is a specialized facility, venue, or field designed specifically for firearm usage qualifications, training, practice, or competitions. Some shooting ranges are operated by military or law enforcement agencies, though the majority of ranges are privately owned by civilians and ...

  4. Select fire - Wikipedia

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    The SIG 550 has four modes: safe (at which the rifle cannot be fired; S), one round (1), three-round burst (3) and full automatic (obscured by the switch lever).. Select fire, is the capability of a weapon to be adjusted to fire in semi-automatic, fully automatic, and/or burst mode. [1]

  5. Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...

  6. Gun safety - Wikipedia

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    A yellow flag demonstrates the rifle's bolt is open and the breech is clear. Firearm handling safety poster. Gun safety is the study and practice of managing risk when using, transporting, storing and disposing of firearms, airguns and ammunition in order to avoid injury, illness or death.

  7. Semi-automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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    A semi-automatic rifle is a firearm that automatically chambers a new cartridge after firing and discharges a single projectile per trigger pull. It utilizes a portion of the firing cartridge's energy to eject the spent case and automatically load another cartridge into its chamber.

  8. Precision-guided firearm - Wikipedia

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    The three main technologies employed for long-range shooting—the bolt-action rifle, telescopic rifle scope and machined cartridge ammunition—were developed in the nineteenth century. The first bolt-action rifle was produced in 1824 by the German firearms inventor Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse. The first documented telescopic rifle sight was ...

  9. Long range shooting - Wikipedia

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    Precision rifle systems (sniper rifles) are used for reproduced but realistic stages with distances from 10 to 1000 meters. Multigun. Each of the stages may combine multiple firearms, such as precision rifles, medium range semi-auto rifles and/or pistols. Extreme Long Range. Precision rifle shooting at distances from 1000 to 1600 meters.