Thursday, March 5, 2009

Guns Category Explained


Guns do have some categories other than the below given types of guns.

There are handguns, ranging guns, raging guns, and the pump action guns.

Here are some examples for each.

1. Hand Guns: A handgun is a firearm designed to be held and operated by one hand, with the other hand optionally supporting the shooting hand. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from their larger counterparts the rifle and the shot guns.

2. Raging Guns or Machine Guns: A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute.

3. Ranging Guns: A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.

4. Pump Action Guns or Shot Guns: A shotgun (also known as a scattergun[1]) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.