Types of fire arm weapons:

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Types of fire arm weapons
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I- Muzzle -loaders, loaded from the muzzle II-
Breach - loaders, loaded from the breach.
divided into

• A- Non rifled weapons

A- Rifled weapon most commonly used FA
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Non rifled weapons (smooth bore)

• 1- Sporting gun
• 2- Ghaffir guns
• A-Greener,
• B- Schneider
• C-Remington

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Outer wad
Non rifle cartridge Sporting gun
shots
Rounded Shots
Inner wad
powder
Percussion cap
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Sporting gun
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shots
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Black smokeless
smokeless
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Types of powders

• Smokeless powder
• Nitrocellulose 60
• Nitroglycerine 35
• Mineral Gel 5
• Black powder
• carbon 15,
• slupher 10
• potassium nitrate 75

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2- Ghaffir guns
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Outer wad
Inner wad
Remington
Schneider
Greener
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Greener
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Main differences in Gaffir gun
type Greener Schneider Remington
Powder Smokeless black powder black powder
Shots Rounded Semi cubical Semi cubical
shoulder NO faint distinct
Outer wad NO NO
Bore 12 16 28
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Types of rifled weapons

• 1-long weapons (S rifle)
• non automatic( rim)
• automatic has a groove

• 2 -short weapons (pistol)
• A- Revolver
• Old (non jacketed)
• New (jacketed)
• B- Automatic pistol.
• (groove)

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Products of firing a gun

• 1- The flash of light
• 2- The gases
• 3- Flam
• 4- smoke
• 5-Unburnt powder particles
• Rifled weapons
  bullet
• Non rifled weapons Shots wads

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Estimation of the distance of firing

• powder marks
• gases 15 cm
  tearing
• Flam burn
  0.5 BL
• Smoke blackening 1-1.5 BL
• Unburned particles tattooing
  2-3 BL

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5- Inner wad penetrate body up to 3 M
hits the body up to 10 M
6- outer wad penetrates body up to 1 M hits
the body up to 3 M
causing slight abrasion.
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The shots

• Up to 2 M the whole shots enter the body in one
  mass producing only one central hole.
• At 2 M and more start of dispersion hole and few
  surrounding separate shots hole.
• At 3 M the central hole is smaller in size with
  increased dispersion of shots holes.
• At 4 M complete dispersion of shots holes having
  a circular diameter of about 16 cm.

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The shots

• In longer distance, the spaces between the shots
  are increased and the power of penetration of
  shots is decreased.

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