terms over firearms
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| safety | Keeps the firearm from accidentally firing
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| trigger | The device that is squeezed to cause the weapon to fire
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| trigger guard | Protects the trigger from being pulled accidentally
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| barrel | Metal tube the bullet travels down when fired.
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| muzzle | The opening at the end of the barrel.
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| sight | part that helps aim the firearm
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| grip | Where you hang on to the end of a handgun.
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| hammer | Device that strikes the firing pin and causes the weapon to fire.
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| magazine | In a semiautomatic hand gun, where cartridges are stored before firing.
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| cartridge | All the parts of ammunition; primer, powder, casing, and bullet
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| butt | The end of a long gun placed against the shoulder when firing.
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| chamber | Area of the weapon where the cartridge sets just before firing
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| land | The part of the barrel not carved out during rifling.
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| groove | The part of the barrel carved out during rifling
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| bullet | Lead object fired out of the barrel
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| casing | Metal part that holds all the cartridge contents.
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| Bore | The inside of the barrel
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| caliber | the diameter of inside of the barrel measured from land to land
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| gauge | the number of shot (little balls) that will equal 1 pound
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| stock | the wooden (plastic) part of a long gun between the butt and the action
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| primer | small amount of chemical that creates a spark when struck by the firing pin
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| striations | scratches on the bullet made by the barrel as the bullet travels down the barrel
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