Glossary

Any small-sized gun that fires a small caliber projectile that can fit in your hand (See Deringer).

A moon clip is a flat ring-shaped or star-shaped piece of metal designed to hold multiple cartridges together for simultaneous insertion and extraction from a revolver cylinder.

The act of a cartridge not firing when an attempt to fire it is made, sometimes caused by bad ammunition or a damaged firearm.

This describes the times when the primer in a cartridge fails to ignite and a bullet does not fire.

A higher quality item used to increase accuracy, such as ammo and barrels, that are the most common improvements made to a firearm to improve accuracy for competitive use.

A skilled shooter that has mastered precision shooting whether for competition or hunting.

A safety switch which the shooter must disengage by hand in order to fire the gun.

A misfeed or failure to fire which can be cleared on the spot, usually without tools.

A term used for the spring that operates the hammer.

A magnum cartridge is a round with a larger case size than a similar cartridge of the same bullet caliber and case shoulder shape.

A term used to describe a cartridge with a higher-velocity load or a heavier projectile when compared to the standard cartridge.

An accessory designed to carry multiple magazines on the shooter's belt.

is an ammunition storage device with an inner spring mechanism designed to feed cartridges into the chamber of a repeating firearm.

A mechanical accessory designed to make it easier to load cartridges into a magazine.

Sometimes called a magazine disconnect, it is a mechanism that prevents the firearm from being able to fire when the magazine is removed from the gun.