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  2. Recoil - Wikipedia

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    Energy in firing a firearm comes in many forms (thermal, pressure) but for understanding recoil what matters is kinetic energy, which is half mass multiplied by squared speed. For the recoiling gun, this means that for a given rearward momentum, doubling the mass halves the speed and also halves the kinetic energy of the gun, making it easier ...

  3. DOM event - Wikipedia

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    These are different from "load" as they fire before the loading of related files (e.g., images). However, DOMContentLoaded has been added to the HTML 5 specification. [ 13 ] The DOMContentLoaded event was also implemented in the Webkit rendering engine build 500+.

  4. Recoil operation - Wikipedia

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    Ready to fire position. Bolt is locked to barrel, both are fully forward. Recoil of firing forces bolt and barrel fully to the rear, compressing the return springs for both. Bolt is held to rear, while barrel unlocks and returns to battery under spring force. Fired round is ejected. Bolt returns under spring force, loads new round.

  5. 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]

  6. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A firing pin block is a mechanical block used in semi-automatic firearms and some revolvers that, when at rest, obstructs forward travel of the firing pin, but is linked to the trigger mechanism and clears the obstruction to the pin just before the hammer or striker is released. This prevents the firing pin from striking a chambered cartridge ...

  7. Action (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    In a tilting block or pivoting block action, the breechblock is hinged on a pin mounted at the rear (in contrast with tilting bolt, which is not hinged). When the lever is operated, the block tilts down and forward, exposing the chamber. The best-known pivoting block designs are the Peabody, the Peabody–Martini, and Ballard actions.

  8. Trigger (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Firearms use triggers to initiate the firing of a cartridge seated within the gun barrel chamber.This is accomplished by actuating a striking device through a combination of mainspring (which stores elastic energy), a trap mechanism that can hold the spring under tension, an intermediate mechanism to transmit the kinetic energy from the spring releasing, and a firing pin to eventually strike ...

  9. Locked breech - Wikipedia

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    A 'locked breech' barrel confines the high-pressure gas to the barrel, allowing the gas to expand and cool without risk of damaging weapon or shooter. Because of the pressure drop, a breech block can be opened in a self-reloading firearm due to the recoil inertia generation by the movement of the projectile.