a pistol that has only one chamber located at the rear of the barrel
Refers to paintball guns that can shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger.
A self-loading weapon which fires only one round each time the trigger is pulled.
A type of action that when the trigger is pulled it fires the cartridge in the chamber, ejects the empty case of the cartridge just fired, and loads the next cartridge into the chamber from the magazine. When the trigger is pulled only one shot is fired and a semi-automatic firearm requires one trigger pull for each shot fired.
firearm which uses the energy from the fired shot to eject the empty case and feed the next round into the chamber. Sometimes called an autoloader, a bottom-feeder, or (inaccurately) an automatic.
A labelling machine in which only part of the operation is controlled by the direct action of a human. The automatic part of the operation is controlled by the machine.
A repeating firearm that requires a separate pull of the trigger for each shot fired. The energy of the discharge is used to cycle the process of extracting the empty cartridge case and loading and locking in place a new cartridge ready to be fired by the next trigger pull. Compare automatic.
See the entry for automatic.
A firearm designed to fire a single cartridge, eject the empty case and reload the chamber each time the trigger is pulled.