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Parent topics

• Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. ^[e]
• Gun [r]: Either a general term for firearm, or a type of artillery with a relatively long barrel with respect to caliber, giving the projectile a fairly flat trajectory ^[e]
• Small arms [r]: A firearm, for sporting or military use, intended to be carried and operated by a single person ^[e]

Subtopics

• Magazine (firearms) [r]: In current use, a reservoir, capable of being attached to a weapon, which holds ready-to-use ammunition. Historically has been used for ready-use ammunition storage points or long-term ammunition storage and maintenance facilities ^[e]
• Shot [r]: Projectiles that are made of solid metal, without an explosive filling ^[e]
• Belt (clothing) [r]: An articles of clothing worn around the waist to support a pair of pants (trousers). ^[e]
• Pearl Hart [r]: (1871-1956?) Cowgirl and outlaw; one of few female stagecoach robbers in the American Wild West. ^[e]
• Gunpowder [r]: Generically, a low explosive used as a propellant, now smokeless powder; the older black powder was used as a warhead filler before the invention of high explosives; also used in pyrotechnics ^[e]

Other related topics

• Rifle [r]: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles ^[e]
• Shotgun [r]: An individual weapon used in sport, police, or military applications, generally firing multiple small projectiles ("shot") rather than a single bullet ^[e]
• Hit-to-kill [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Machine gun [r]: A firearm capable not only of full-automatic fire, but with additional features, such as large ammunition supply mechanisms, barrel cooling or quick-change features, etc., that lets it fire for prolonged periods ^[e]
• Bill of Rights (United States) [r]: The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution which were ratified in 1791 to preserve select rights for citizens. ^[e]
• Semi-automatic (military) [r]: A firearm that loads and fires once for each pull of the trigger ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Rifle [r]: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles ^[e]
• Korean War [r]: (1950-1953) war on the Korean peninsula in which about 3 million people died (mostly civilians), begun when North Korea, backed by China, attempted to overrun South Korea, which had been placed under the control of U.S.-led United Nations forces after the surrender of Japan at the end of WW II. ^[e]