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  2. Safety (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Safety (firearms) Close-up shot of a safety of an M16A2 rifle. In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling. Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do not receive input from the user) and ...

  3. Gun safe - Wikipedia

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    A gun safe is a vault, cabinet, container or room that is difficult to break into. A sheet metal commercial gun safe, or other locked metal container for the preservation of valuables fits the description of “safe” in Black’s Law Dictionary. Safe storage conditions increase in severity from non-restricted class to restricted class and ...

  4. Winchester rifle - Wikipedia

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    Winchester rifle is a comprehensive term describing a series of lever action repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Developed from the 1860 Henry rifle, Winchester rifles were among the earliest repeaters. The Model 1873 was particularly successful, being marketed by the manufacturer as "The Gun That Won the West".

  5. Gun safe storage mandate approved by RI House. Here's ... - AOL

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    Upon conviction, that individual could be fined up to $1,000 and/or imprisoned for up to a year. The proposed new law requires the "safe storage" of a firearm in a locked container unless it is ...

  6. Firearm malfunction - Wikipedia

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    A light primer strike will result in a dead trigger and the gun will not cycle. This malfunction is not to be mistaken with a squib load which the gunpowder is ignited and the bullet fires, but is trapped in the barrel of a gun. A light primer strike will not have expanding gases as a squib load would produce as sign that there is one.

  7. Gun safety - Wikipedia

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    A Glock 19 disarmed and secured for transport (or storage) with a cable lock through its receiver Firearm handling safety poster. Gun safety is the study and practice of using, transporting, storing and disposing of firearms and ammunition, including the training of gun users, the design of weapons, and formal and informal regulation of gun production, distribution, and usage, for the purpose ...

  8. Winchester Model 1911 - Wikipedia

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    The Winchester Model 1911 SL Shotgun was a self-loading, recoil-operated shotgun [1] produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company from 1911 to 1925. It was Winchester's first autoloading shotgun, but design flaws kept it from providing competition for the autoloading shotguns made by Remington Arms and Browning Arms Company .

  9. List of Winchester models - Wikipedia

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    Model 1873 lever-action centerfire rifle. Model 1876 lever-action centerfire rifle. Model 1878 Hotchkiss bolt-action rifle (US Army and Navy) Model 1885 falling-block single-shot rifle. Model 1886 lever-action centerfire rifle. Model 1887 lever-action shotgun. Model 1890 slide-action .22 WRF rifle.