Types of guns. How they operate.

There are many, many different types of guns but in this section will explain the 5 main types of guns used in modern society. They are:    

Handguns

M1911A1

The smallest of all small arms is the handgun (or pistol). There are three common types of handguns: single-shot pistols , revolvers, and semi-automatic pistols. Revolvers have a number of firing chambers or "charge holes" in a revolving cylinder; each chamber in the cylinder is loaded with a single cartridge. Semi-automatic pistols have a single fixed firing chamber machined into the rear of the barrel, and a magazine, usually removable, so they can be used to fire more than one round

How a semi automatic handgun works?

 As the shooter fires the gun, the expanding gazes produced by the burning powder, inside the cartridge, start pushing the bullet down the barrel. At the same time, those same gazes, start pushing the cartridge case and hence, the locked slide and barrel to the rear. These three items, are for the time being, locked together.

By the time the bullet has exited the muzzle of the barrel (which means that the pressure inside the barrel has diminished), this last one has reached the end of its rearward travel. Due to the barrel link, which pulls the barrel down, the barrel disengages from the slide. The breech starts opening up. The slide continues to travel backwards, pulling the spend cartridge case with it, which finally ejects from the gun, when it strikes the ejector. The slide, during its rearward movement, recocks the hammer, preparing the gun for the next firing sequence.

Rifles

FNC Assault Rifle 

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. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile, imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. Formerly, rifles only fired a single projectile with each squeeze of the trigger. Modern assault rifles are capable of firing more than one round per trigger squeeze; some fire in a fully automatic mode and others are limited to bursts of three to five rounds per squeeze. 

There are many many types of rifles including:

assault rifles 

muskets

bolt action rifles

even anti tank rifles

But for the purpose of the blog i will explain an assault rifle.

How a semi assault rifle works?