#firearm__piece__small-arm__smallarm a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
supertype: #gun a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
part: #firing_pin #lock.mechanism #sight.optical_instrument
subtype: #autoloader a firearm that reloads itself
subtype: #automatic_firearm__automaticfirearm a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released
subtype: #automatic_pistol__automaticpistol__automatic a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
subtype: #automatic_rifle__automaticrifle__automatic__machine_rifle__machinerifle light machine gun
subtype: #assault_rifle any of the automatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use
subtype: #Browning_automatic_rifle__BAR a portable .30 caliber magazine-fed automatic rifle operated by gas pressure; used by United States troops in World Wars I and II and in the Korean War
subtype: #semiautomatic_firearm__semiautomaticfirearm an autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger
subtype: #Garand_rifle__Garand__M-1__M-1_rifle a semiautomatic rifle
subtype: #semiautomatic_pistol__semiautomaticpistol__semiautomatic a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm
subtype: #Luger (trademark) a German semiautomatic pistol
subtype: #machine_gun__machinegun a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
subtype: #automatic_rifle__automaticrifle__automatic__machine_rifle__machinerifle light machine gun
subtype: #Browning_machine_gun a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
subtype: #Gatling_gun an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
subtype: #Maxim_gun an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel
subtype: #Spandau a German machine gun
subtype: #submachine_gun machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm
subtype: #Bren_gun__Bren a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II
subtype: #burp_gun__machine_pistol__machinepistol a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun
subtype: #Kalashnikov a type of submachine gun made in Russia
subtype: #light_machine_gun__lightmachinegun a submachine gun not greater than .30 millimeter
subtype: #Tommy_gun__Thompson_submachine_gun a .45-caliber submachine gun
subtype: #Uzi a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel; "the Uzi is the weapon of choice for America's crack pedlars"
subtype: #muzzle_loader a firearm that is load through the muzzle
subtype: #arquebus__harquebus__harquebu__hackbut__hagbut an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
subtype: #firelock__flintlock a muzzle loader having a flintlock type of gunlock
subtype: #musket a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
subtype: #blunderbuss a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
subtype: #fusil a light flintlock musket
subtype: #matchlock an early style of musket; had a slow burning wick that could be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
subtype: #pistol__handgun__side_arm__shooting_iron a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
subtype: #automatic_pistol__automaticpistol__automatic a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
subtype: #derringer a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel
subtype: #forty-five__fortyfive a .45-caliber pistol
subtype: #gat (slang) a gangster's pistol
subtype: #horse_pistol__horsepistol__horsepistol a large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen
subtype: #peacekeeper the pistol of a law officer in the old West
subtype: #revolver__six-gun__sixgun__six-shooter__sixshooter a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
subtype: #Colt (trademark) a kind of revolver
subtype: #Saturday_night_special a cheap handgun that is easily obtained
subtype: #semiautomatic_pistol__semiautomaticpistol__semiautomatic a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm
subtype: #Very_pistol__Verey_pistol a pistol for firing Very-light flares
subtype: #zip_gun__zipgun a crude homemade pistol
subtype: #repeating_firearm__repeatingfirearm__repeater a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading
subtype: #Mauser trademark for a repeating rifle or pistol
subtype: #rifle a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
subtype: #carbine light automatic rifle
subtype: #Garand_rifle__Garand__M-1__M-1_rifle a semiautomatic rifle
subtype: #Winchester (trade mark) a shoulder rifle
subtype: #shotgun__scattergun firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
subtype: #fowling_piece__fowlingpiece a light shotgun used for fowling
subtype: #sawed-off_shotgun__sawedoffshotgun a shotgun with short barrels
subtype: #.22__twenty-two a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle)
subtype: #twenty-two_pistol a .22-caliber pistol
subtype: #twenty-two_rifle a .22-caliber rifle
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