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  2. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    After test firing the guns, Goddard proved that the weapons were those used to kill the members of the North Side Gang, absolving the Chicago police department of all involvement. [12] The successful use of Goddard's technique resulted in the solidification of his place as the father of forensic firearm examination.

  3. Rimfire ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of centerfire and rimfire ignition Fired rimfire (left) and centerfire cartridges. A rimfire firing pin produces a notch at the edge of the case; a centerfire pin produces a depression in the center of the primer. Rimfire ammunition is so named because the firing pin strikes and crushes the base's rim to ignite the primer. The rim of ...

  4. Small arms ammunition pressure testing - Wikipedia

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    SAAMI pressure testing protocol uses a conformal piezoelectric quartz transducer for pressure testing of centerfire pistol and revolver, centerfire rifle, and rimfire cartridges. The primary source of the conformal transducers is the US company PCB Piezotronics. The SAAMI pressure testing protocol uses test barrels that have a hole located in ...

  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. Benchrest shooting - Wikipedia

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    Generally, scopes will have turret adjustments to allow the scope to be easily adjusted for various shooting conditions. For benchrest shooting, scopes with a second focal plane (SFP) reticle and click adjustments of 1 ⁄ 8 moa (approximately 0.036 mil) are most commonly used. Scope models with 0.025 mil and 0.05 mil adjustments are also ...

  7. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    For double-barreled guns that use one shotgun barrel and one rifle barrel, see combination gun. Double action revolver: A revolver whose trigger performs two actions, firing the round, and cocking the hammer. Double rifle: A rifle that has two barrels, usually of the same caliber. Like shotguns, they are configured either in over-and-under or ...

  8. Rim (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The .50 Beowulf rifle cartridge uses a rebated-rim design. This round is used in specialized AR-15 upper receivers, and the rim matches the size of the rim of the 7.62×39mm, allowing those parts to be used in the custom-built upper receivers. [8] Other rebated rifle cartridges include the .450 Bushmaster, .458 SOCOM, .500 Jeffery, and .375 ...

  9. Telescopic sight - Wikipedia

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    The scope base is the attachment interface on the rifle's receiver, onto which the scope rings or scope mount are fixed. Early telescopic sights almost all have the rings that are fastened directly into tapped screw holes on the receiver, hence having no additional scope base other than the receiver top itself.