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72 relations: Action (firearms), Alcohol, Automatic firearm, Bolt (firearms), Boy Scouts of America, Caliber, California, California Department of Justice, Canada, Canadian Firearms Program, Catastrophic failure, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamber (firearms), Civilian Marksmanship Program, Collateral damage, Combination lock, Cooking off, District of Columbia v. Heller, Driving under the influence, Drug, Dummy round, Eddie Eagle, Film, Fingerprint, Firearm malfunction, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, Game (hunting), Gun safe, Handloading, Hollow-point bullet, Identilock, Jeff Cooper, Key (lock), Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, Massad Ayoob, Mercury (element), Microchip implant (human), National Institute of Justice, National Rifle Association, New Year, Overpressure ammunition, Pistol, Police, Popular culture, Project Appleseed, Puerto Rico, Receiver (firearms), Revolver, Ricochet, Rifle, ..., Rules of engagement, Safety (firearms), Safety area, Semi-automatic firearm, Shooting range, Shotgun, Silencer (firearms), Slamfire, Smart gun, Soldier, Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, Stopping power, Tap rack bang, Taurus (manufacturer), Television, Terminal ballistics, Terminal velocity, Tinnitus, Trigger (firearms), Trigger guard, Unintentional discharge (firearms), 4-H Shooting Sports Programs. Expand index (22 more) »
Action (firearms)
In firearms terminology, an action is the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, extracts and ejects) or the method by which that mechanism works.
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Alcohol
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a carbon.
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Automatic firearm
An automatic firearm continuously fires rounds as long as the trigger is pressed or held and there is ammunition in the magazine/chamber.
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Bolt (firearms)
A bolt is the part of a repeating, breech-loading firearm that blocks the rear of the chamber while the propellant burns and moves to facilitate loading of cartridges from the magazine.
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Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.
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Caliber
In guns, particularly firearms, caliber or calibre is the approximate internal diameter of the gun barrel, or the diameter of the projectile it shoots.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Department of Justice
The California Department of Justice (CA DOJ/CDJ) is both a law enforcement agency and state legal department in the California executive branch under the elected leadership of the California Attorney General which carries out complex criminal & civil investigations, prosecutions, and other legal services throughout the state.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canadian Firearms Program
Canadian Firearms Program (CFP; Programme canadien des armes à feu, PCAF), formerly Canada Firearms Centre is a Canadian government program within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Policing Support Services, responsible for licensing and regulating firearms in Canada.
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Catastrophic failure
A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States.
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Chamber (firearms)
In firearms, the chamber is the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inserted before being fired.
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Civilian Marksmanship Program
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) is a U.S. government-chartered program that promotes firearm safety training and rifle practice for all qualified U.S. citizens with special emphasis on youth.
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Collateral damage
Collateral damage is a general term for deaths, injuries, or other damage inflicted on an unintended target.
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Combination lock
A combination lock is a type of locking device in which a sequence of symbols, usually numbers, is used to open the lock.
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Cooking off
Cooking off (or thermally induced firing) is ammunition exploding prematurely due to heat in the surrounding environment.
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District of Columbia v. Heller
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home, and that Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and requirement that lawfully-owned rifles and shotguns be kept "unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock" violated this guarantee.
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Driving under the influence
Driving under the influence (DUI), driving while impaired/driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while intoxicated (OWI), or drink-driving (UK) is currently the crime or offense of driving or operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.
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Drug
A drug is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological (and often psychological) change in the body.
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Dummy round
A dummy round or drill round is a round that is completely inert, i.e., contains no primer, propellant, or explosive charge.
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Eddie Eagle
The Eddie Eagle GunSafe program and its namesake character were developed by the National Rifle Association for children who are generally considered too young to be allowed to handle firearms.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Fingerprint
A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger.
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Firearm malfunction
A firearm malfunction is the failure of a firearm to operate as intended for causes other than user error.
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Front Sight Firearms Training Institute
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, also known as Front Sight and as Front Sight Resorts, was founded in 1996 by Dr Ignatius Piazza.
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any animal hunted for sport or for food.
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Gun safe
A gun safe is a secure and protective storage container for one or more firearms, and, or ammunition for those guns.
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Handloading
Handloading or reloading is the process of loading firearm cartridges or shotgun shells by assembling the individual components (case/hull, primer, powder, and bullet/shot), rather than purchasing completely assembled, factory-loaded ammunition.
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Hollow-point bullet
A hollow-point bullet is an expanding bullet that has a pit or hollowed out shape in its tip often intended to cause the bullet to expand upon entering a target as it penetrates and disrupts more tissue.
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Identilock
Identilock is a firearm safety device, created by Michigan engineer Omer Kiyani.
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Jeff Cooper
John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006) was a United States Marine, the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms.
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Key (lock)
A key is a device that is used to operate a lock (such as to lock or unlock it).
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Mark Hanbury Beaufoy
Mark Hanbury Beaufoy JP (21 September 1854 – 10 November 1922) was an English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament.
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Massad Ayoob
Massad F. Ayoob (born 20 July 1948) is an American firearms and self-defense instructor.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Microchip implant (human)
A human microchip implant is typically an identifying integrated circuit device or RFID transponder encased in silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being.
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National Institute of Justice
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice.
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National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights.
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New Year
New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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Overpressure ammunition
Overpressure ammunition, commonly designated as +P or +P+, is small arms ammunition that has been loaded to a higher internal pressure than is standard for ammunition of its caliber (see internal ballistics), but less than the pressures generated by a proof round.
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Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun.
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Police
A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.
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Project Appleseed
Project Appleseed is a rifle marksmanship clinic that focuses on teaching traditional rifle marksmanship from standing, sitting/kneeling, and prone positions over a two-day weekend shooting clinic for what is termed an "Appleseed".
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Receiver (firearms)
In firearms terminology, the firearm receiver or firearm frame is the part of a firearm which provides housing for internal components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, action and firing mechanism, and is usually threaded at its forward portion to "receive" the barrel and has screw holes on the bottom and/or rear to receive the stock and grip.
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Revolver
A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing.
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Ricochet
A ricochet is a rebound, bounce or skip off a surface, particularly in the case of a projectile.
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Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
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Rules of engagement
Rules of engagement (ROE) are the internal rules or directives among military forces (including individuals) that define the circumstances, conditions, degree, and manner in which the use of force, or actions which might be construed as provocative, may be applied.
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Safety (firearms)
M16A2 rifle In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling.
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Safety area
A Safety Area is a term from the shooting sports describing a bay with a safe direction where shooters can handle unloaded firearms without the supervision of a Range Officer (RO).
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Semi-automatic firearm
A semi-automatic firearm, or self-loading firearm, is one that not only fires a bullet each time the trigger is pulled, but also performs all steps necessary to prepare it to discharge again—assuming cartridges remain in the firearm's feed device.
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Shooting range
A shooting range or firing range or archery range or pistol range or rifle range or shooting gallery or shooting ground is a specialized facility designed for archery or firearms practice.
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
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Silencer (firearms)
A silencer, suppressor, sound suppressor, or sound moderator is a device that reduces the sound intensity and muzzle flash when a firearm or air gun is discharged.
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Slamfire
A slamfire is a premature, usually unintended discharge of a firearm that occurs as a cartridge is being loaded into the chamber.
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Smart gun
A smart gun, by popular usage, is a firearm that is smart but only in the sense that it can detect its authorized user(s) or something that is normally only possessed by its authorized user(s). It is also called a personalized gun. Smart guns have one or more systems that allow them to fire only when activated by an authorized user. Those systems typically employ RFID chips or other proximity tokens, fingerprint recognition, magnetic rings, or mechanical locks.
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Soldier
A soldier is one who fights as part of an army.
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Sporting Shooters Association of Australia
The Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia (SSAA) was established in 1948 to promote the shooting sports and protect firearm owners' interests in Australia.
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Stopping power
Stopping power is the ability of a firearm or other weapon to cause enough ballistic trauma to a target (human or animal) to immediately incapacitate (and thus stop) the target.
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Tap rack bang
Tap, rack, bang (TRB) or Tap, rack and go is jargon for the response to a failure to fire in a firearm with a removable magazine.
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Taurus (manufacturer)
Forjas Taurus is a manufacturing conglomerate based in São Leopoldo, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Terminal ballistics
Terminal ballistics (also known as wound ballistics), a sub-field of ballistics, is the study of the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target.
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Terminal velocity
Terminal velocity is the highest velocity attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid (air is the most common example).
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Tinnitus
Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present.
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Trigger (firearms)
A trigger is a mechanism that actuates the firing sequence of a firearm, airgun, crossbow or speargun.
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Trigger guard
A trigger guard is a loop surrounding the trigger of a firearm and protecting it from accidental discharge.
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Unintentional discharge (firearms)
Unintentional discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) at a time not intended by the user.
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4-H Shooting Sports Programs
4-H Shooting Sports Programs are part of 4-H in the United States, a youth organization administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), with the mission of "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." The name represents four personal development areas of focus for the organization: head, heart, hands, and health.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_safety
