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  2. Clip (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A stripper clip (American English) or charger clip (Commonwealth English) is a speedloader that holds several pistol or rifle cartridges as a unit for easier loading into a firearm's internal box magazine. After the bolt is opened and the stripper clip is placed in position (generally in a slot on the receiver or bolt), the cartridges are ...

  3. .45 Auto Rim - Wikipedia

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    The .45 Auto Rim, also known as 11.5x23mmR, is a rimmed cartridge specifically designed to be fired in revolvers originally chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge.. The Peters Cartridge Company developed the cartridge in 1920 for use in the M1917 revolver, large numbers of which had become available as surplus following the end of World War I. [3]

  4. List of clip-fed firearms - Wikipedia

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    Cartridge Country Produced Feed Mannlicher M1894: Semi-automatic pistol 6.5×23mmR 7.6×24mmR Austria-Hungary Stripper clip with internal 5-round magazine. Roth-Steyr M1907: Semi-automatic pistol 8mm Roth-Steyr Austria-Hungary Stripper clip with 10-round internal magazine. Mauser C96: Semi-automatic pistol 7.62×25mm 9×19mm Parabellum German ...

  5. Rim (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Rimmed cartridges use the rim to hold the (usually straight sided) cartridge in the chamber of the firearm, with the rim serving to hold the cartridge at the proper depth in the chamber—this function is called "headspacing". Because the rimmed cartridge headspaces on the rim, the case length is of less importance than with rimless cartridges.

  6. Caliber conversion device - Wikipedia

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    A .32 ACP FMJ cartridge, a .32 ACP FMJ cartridge in a blued .303 British supplemental chamber, and a .303 British FMJ cartridge (left to right) A caliber conversion device is a device which can be used to non-permanently alter a firearm to allow it to fire a different cartridge than the one it was originally designed to fire.

  7. Blank-firing adapter - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Army soldiers in UCP ACUs training with their M4 carbines fitted with bright yellow blank-firing adapters.. A blank-firing adapter or blank-firing attachment (BFA), [1] sometimes called a blank adapter or blank attachment, is a device used in conjunction with blank ammunition for safety reasons, functional reasons or a combination of them both.

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  9. Firearm malfunction - Wikipedia

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    A light primer strike is a failure to fire as a result of the firing pin not striking the primer of a cartridge hard enough. A possible reason could be because of the firing pin spring of a gun being too stiff to not release the sufficient power to strike the primer and ignite the gunpowder.