English > firearm: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A portable gun. |
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| Example | "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" |
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| Synonyms | piece, small-arm |
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| Parts | firing pin | striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer |
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| lock | A mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun |
| sights | An optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument |
| Narrower | autoloader, self-loader | A firearm that reloads itself |
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| muzzle loader | An obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle |
| pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron | A firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
| repeating firearm, repeater | A firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading |
| rifle | A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore |
| riot gun | A firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death |
| shotgun, scattergun | firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges |
| smoothbore | A firearm that has no rifling |
| twenty-two, .22 | A .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle) |
| Broader | gun | A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) |
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| Spanish | arma de fuego, arma, arma portátil, pistola |
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| Catalan | arma de foc, arma de foc portàtil, arma portàtil |
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