Firearm components

The breechface is the front part of the breechblock that makes contact with the cartridge in a firearm. The breech block (or breechblock) in a gun is what holds a round in the chamber, and absorbs the recoil of the cartridge when the round is fired, preventing the cartridge case from moving.

disintegrating metallic ammunition link used for belt-fed firearms

Several types of sliding brackets found on firearms for mounting scope sights, often used on air guns.

manufacturer of sound suppressors

firearm component

method for rough setup of aiming devices on a firearm by looking through the barrel and comparing with the sights

thumb|Magpul MOE M-LOK handguard on a user-assembled AR-15 style rifle|AR-15 semi-automatic rifle M-LOK, for Modular Lock, is a firearm rail interface system developed and patented by Magpul Industries. The license is free-of-charge, but subject to an approval process.

Silencer for the AKM

military equipment

thumb|right|Flintlock mechanism The frizzen, historically called the "hammer" or the steel, is an L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the front used in flintlock firearms. The frizzen is held in one of two positions, opened or closed, by a leaf spring. When closed, it is positioned over the flash pan so as to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel into which the main charge has been loaded. When the trigger is pulled, the cock, which holds a shaped piece of flint clamped in a set of jaws with a scrap of leather or thin piece of le

method of bringing a firearm fully into battery