Firearm
Also known as
- gunfire,
- guns
A firearm is a device that can be used as a weapon that fires either single or multiple projectile propelled at high velocity by the gas produced through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process of rapid burning is technically known as deflagration. In older firearms, this propellant was typically black powder, but modern firearms use smokeless powder, cordite, or other propellants. Most modern firearms (with the notable exception of smoothbore shotgun) have rifled barrels to...
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