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1.magazine: cartridge storing device that feeds cartridges into semiautomatic and fully automatic firearms

2. muzzle: the end of the gun barrel where the projectile is released

3. National Integrated Ballistic Information

Network (NIBIN): a national database of digital images of spent bullets and cartridge cases found at crime scenes or test-fired from confiscated weapons

4. pistol: a handgun design to be fired with one hand

5. primer: a metal cup that contains the primer powder located in the base of the ammunition

6. primer powder: the first explosive charge to be ignited in center-fire ammunition

7. projectile: the bullet or shot that leaves the barrel of a firearm when propelled by gunpowder explosions  

8. recoil: the backward movement of a firearm when it is discharged

9.  revolver: a handgun with a revolving cylinder

10. rifle: a long gun that has a barrel with spiral grooves and that is fired from shoulder level

11. rifling: the spiral pattern of lands and grooves in the barrel of a firearm

12. semiautomatic: firearm fires a single shot when the trigger is pulled but will reload automatically 

13. shot: small round pellets contained within shotgun ammunition

14. shotgun: a long gun with a smooth barrel that fires shells filled with shot or a slug

15. shotgun shell: contains shot or a slug, gunpowder, and wadding

16. slug: a single large projectile used in a shotgun rather than shot pellets

17. trajectory: the flight path of a projectile

18. wad or wadding: material that separates gunpowder from the shot or slug in a shotgun shell