Firearm/Related Articles

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• Revolver [r]: A repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. ^[e]

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• Assault rifle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Autocannon [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Gunpowder [r]: Generically, a low explosive used as a propellant, now smokeless powder; the older black powder was used as a warhead filler before the invention of high explosives; also used in pyrotechnics ^[e]
• Hit-to-kill [r]: The infliction of damage by a weapon, which does not depend on other than mechanical energy transfer. At the low end, it can be as simple as a bullet hitting a nonmoving target, and at the high end, it can include the immense energies of a collision between an incoming ballistic missile and an intercept vehicle. It is a subset of kinetic kill, which includes explosives and other physically destructive "hard kill" mechanisms. ^[e]
• Honor Harrington [r]: The central character in an extensive science fiction series created by David Weber, with considerable personality resemblances, although far higher technology, to Horatio Hornblower ^[e]
• Machine gun [r]: A firearm capable not only of full-automatic fire, but with additional features, such as large ammunition supply mechanisms, barrel cooling or quick-change features, etc., that lets it fire for prolonged periods ^[e]
• Semi-automatic (military) [r]: A firearm that loads and fires once for each pull of the trigger ^[e]