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  2. SKS - Wikipedia

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    SKS firing pins that are stuck in the forward position have been known to cause accidental "slamfires" (the rifle firing on its own, without pulling the trigger and often without being fully locked). This behavior is less likely with the hard primer military-spec ammo for which the SKS was designed, but as with any rifle, users should properly ...

  3. Slamfire - Wikipedia

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    Slamfire occurs when the cartridge discharges as soon as it reaches the chamber, rather than waiting in the chamber to receive a firing pin impact when the trigger is pulled. Schematic of an Advanced Primer Ignition blowback operation that works in a similar way to slamfire by striking the cartridge as it is moving forward before it is fully ...

  4. Unintentional discharge - Wikipedia

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    An unintentional discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) at a time not intended by the user. An unintended discharge may be produced by an incompatibility between firearm design and usage, such as the phenomenon of cooking off a round in a closed bolt machine gun, a mechanical malfunction as in the case of slamfire in an automatic weapon, or be user induced due to training ...

  5. Zastava M59/66 - Wikipedia

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    The Zastava M59/66 PAP is a Yugoslavian licensed derivative of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle.In Yugoslavia, it received the popular nickname "papovka" derived from PAP, the abbreviation for poluautomatska puška, or Serb for "semi-automatic rifle". [4]

  6. Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...

  7. German military rifles - Wikipedia

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    The Karabiner S is a German manufactured Russian SKS semi-automatic carbine, which was designed in 1945 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. It is formally known as the Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945), or SKS 45.

  8. PTRS-41 - Wikipedia

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    On firing the last round, ... In 1943 Simonov used a scaled-down PTRS-41 design for the SKS, that would accommodate the new 1943-designed 7.62×39mm cartridge.

  9. Semi-automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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    A semi-automatic rifle is a firearm that automatically reloads after firing and discharges a single round of ammunition per trigger pull. It utilizes a portion of the expelled cartridge's energy to eject the spent case and automatically load another cartridge into its chamber .