firearm

1. A portable gun (synset 103348699)
   "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
   is a type of: gun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
   subtypes:

   • autoloader, self-loader - a firearm that reloads itself
   • muzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
   • handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm - a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
   • repeater, repeating firearm - a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading
   • rifle - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
   • riot gun - a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death
   • scattergun, shotgun - firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
   • smoothbore - a firearm that has no rifling
   • .22, twenty-two - a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle)
   has:

   • firing pin - striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer
   • lock - a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
   • sights - an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
   same as: piece, small-arm

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