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  2. Flaccid paralysis (shooting) - Wikipedia

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    Flaccid paralysis is a term used in tactical shooting when a shot to the head is taken and the bullet enters the person's cranial cavity, in the "T-box".T-box shots are normally made in a situation where the suspect is armed and holding a hostage, usually at gun or knife point.

  3. Pepper-box - Wikipedia

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    A pepperbox by Allen & Thurber, one of the most common American designs A mid 19th century four barrel Russian pepperbox revolver. The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper shakers) is a multiple-barrel firearm, mostly in the form of a handgun, that has three or more gun barrels in a revolving mechanism.

  4. Ethan Allen (armsmaker) - Wikipedia

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    Ethan Allen's companies made a vast variety of firearms. Most recognized are the Allen & Thurber "pepper-box" revolving pistol—known as the "Gun that won the East". This pistol was actually much more common than the early Patterson Arms revolvers made by Colt.

  5. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Some internal box magazines use en bloc clips that are loaded into the magazine with the ammunition and that are ejected from the firearm when empty. A detachable box magazine is a self-contained mechanism capable of being loaded or unloaded while detached from the host firearm. They are attached via a slot in the firearm receiver, usually ...

  6. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    General purpose machine gun: A machine gun intended to fill the role of either a light machine gun or medium machine gun, while at the same time being man-portable. Grain is a unit of measurement of mass that is based upon the mass of a single seed of a typical cereal. Used in firearms to denote the amount of powder in a cartridge or the weight ...

  7. Mozambique Drill - Wikipedia

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    The Mozambique Drill, [1] also known as the Failure Drill, Failure to Stop drill, or informally as "two to the body, one to the head", [2] [3] is a close-quarters shooting technique that requires the shooter to fire twice into the torso of a target (known as a double tap or hammered pair to the center of mass), and follow up with a more difficult shot to the head that, if properly placed ...

  8. United States Practical Shooting Association - Wikipedia

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    While Standard handguns must fit inside the IPSC box with any of its magazines inserted, there is no box for Limited division and instead there is a restriction on magazine length of 141.25 mm for double stack magazines (5.561 inches, which is often incorrectly referred to as 140 mm magazines) or 171.25 mm for single stack magazines (6.742 ...

  9. Shooting sports - Wikipedia

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    Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, [1] rifles [2] and shotguns [3]) and bows/crossbows.