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Definitions of firearm in various dictionaries:
noun - a portable gun
A weapon, especially a pistol or rifle, capable of firing a projectile and using an explosive charge as a propellant.
noun - a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
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A weapon, especially a pistol or rifle, capable of firing a projectile and using an explosive charge as a propellant. |
a rifle, pistol, or other portable gun. |
a portable gun |
A rifle, pistol, or other portable gun. |
a gun that can be carried easily: |
Firearm description |
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A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge. If gas pressurization is achieved through mechanical gas compression rather than through propellant combustion, then the gun is technically an air gun, not a firearm.The first primitive firearms originated in 10th-century China when bamboo tubes containing gunpowder and pellet projectiles were mounted on spears into the one-person-portable fire lance,, which was later used as a shock weapon to good effect in the Siege of De'an. In 13th century, the Chinese invented the metal-barrelled hand cannon, widely considered to be the true ancestor of all firearms. The technology gradually spread through the rest of East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Older firearms typically used black powder as a propellant, but mod |