1. An action requiring the manual cocking of the hammer before sufficient pressure on
the trigger releases the firing mechanism is Known as
a) Single-Action
b) Automatic
c) Double-Action
d) Semi-Automatic
Answer:
a) Single-Action
Explanation: Single action means pulling the trigger does one action. It releases the hammer or the striker. With a single-action, if the guns not cocked, pulling the trigger actually does nothing. You have to manually pull the hammer back and then pulling the trigger will release it.
2. Which type of firearm uses the ‘Cock the Hammer’ mechanism?
a) Flint Lock
b) Match Lock
c) Wheel Lock
d) Hacquebut
Answer:
a) Flint lock
Explanation: In flintlock firearms, the flint was held in the jaws of small vice on the pivoted arm called cock. This makes the term cock the hammer popular.
3. How
is known to be the first person to develop a wheel lock firearm?
a) Hatcher
b) Nicolaus Copernicus
c) Richard Feynman
d) Johann Kiwfuss
Answer:
d) Johann Kiwfuss
Explanation: In 1517, Johann Kiswfuu of Nuremberg, Germany, was originally known to be the inventor of wheel-lock firearms.
4. When was the 1st documentation use of a hand canon as a cavalry weapon in manuscripts?
a) 1446
b) 1449
c) 1148
d) 1447
Answer:
b) 1449
Explanation: In the year 1449, Marianus Jacobus’s manuscript was the 1st to record the use of the hand canon as a cavalry weapon.
5. Ea rliest
Hand Cannons were loaded from which end?
a) Muzzle end
b) Breach end
c) Top-lift end
d) Both a & b
Answer:
a) Muzzle end
Explanation: Muzzle the end of the barrel out of which the bullets come out. The hand cannon also known as the gone or handgone, is the 1st true firearm and the successor of the fire lance. It is the oldest type of small arms as well as the most mechanically simple form of metal barrel firearms. In which bullets loaded from muzzle end.
6. The
modern percussion lock firearm is the result of initial discoveries made by
a) Remington
b) Smith & Wesson
c) John Forsyth
d) Webley & Scott
Answer:
c) John Forsyth
Explanation: Alexander john Forsyth, Scottish Presbyterian minister and inventor who between 1805 to 1807 produced a percussion lock for firearms that would explode a priming compound with sharp blow, thereby avoiding the priming powder and free, exposed sparks of the flint system.
7. Which firearm is called the early form of flintlock?
a) Snaphaunce
b) European wheel lock firearm
c) Percussion Caplock gun
d) Both b & c
Answer:
a) Snaphaunce
Explanation: Snaphaunce was called to be an early form of flintlock firearm which has flint that is attached to the spring-loaded arm. On pressing the trigger, the cover of the flash pan slides of, then the arm snaps and moves forward sticking the flint against the metal plate over the flash pan to produce sparks that ignite the powder.
8. The term ‘Gun with a hook’ is used for which firearm?
a) Snaphaunce
b) Arquebus
c) Hacquebut
d) Frizzen
Answer:
c) Hacquebut
Explanation: Hacquebut is term that is only used for havier calibre wheel lock weapons. Wheel lock means ‘gun with a hook’. This hook was on the bottom of the barrel and placed against the object to minimize the recoil during firing heavier calibre ammunitions.
9. Arrange the various forms of firearms in chronological order according to their invention
year.
a) Wheel Lock
b) Match Lock
c) Percussion Lock
d) Flint Lock
1) a, c, d & b
2) b, a, d & c
3) b, c, d & a
4) a, b, d & c
Answer:
2) b, a, d & c
Explanation: Match Lock----- Wheel lock---------- Flint lock---------- Percussion locks it’s the correct sequence. Match lock guns appear in around 1400. Where wheel lock guns appear in 1509, then flint lock guns came in around 1630 and percussion lock guns invented in 18th century.
10. The Indian Arms Act was enforced in
a) 1955
b) 1959
c) 1961
d) 1964
Answer:
b) 1959
Explanation: The Indian Arms Act, 1959 is an Act of the parliament of India to consolidate and amend the law relating to arms and ammunition in order to crub illegal weapons and violence stemming from them. It replaced the Indian Arms Act, 1878.
11. Snap lock is following weapon
a) Match Lock
b) Flint Lock Muzzle loader
c) Percussion Lock
d) Wheel Lock
Answer: b) Flint Lock Muzzle loader.
a) Single-Action
b) Automatic
c) Double-Action
d) Semi-Automatic
Explanation: Single action means pulling the trigger does one action. It releases the hammer or the striker. With a single-action, if the guns not cocked, pulling the trigger actually does nothing. You have to manually pull the hammer back and then pulling the trigger will release it.
2. Which type of firearm uses the ‘Cock the Hammer’ mechanism?
a) Flint Lock
b) Match Lock
c) Wheel Lock
d) Hacquebut
Explanation: In flintlock firearms, the flint was held in the jaws of small vice on the pivoted arm called cock. This makes the term cock the hammer popular.
a) Hatcher
b) Nicolaus Copernicus
c) Richard Feynman
d) Johann Kiwfuss
Explanation: In 1517, Johann Kiswfuu of Nuremberg, Germany, was originally known to be the inventor of wheel-lock firearms.
4. When was the 1st documentation use of a hand canon as a cavalry weapon in manuscripts?
a) 1446
b) 1449
c) 1148
d) 1447
Explanation: In the year 1449, Marianus Jacobus’s manuscript was the 1st to record the use of the hand canon as a cavalry weapon.
a) Muzzle end
b) Breach end
c) Top-lift end
d) Both a & b
Explanation: Muzzle the end of the barrel out of which the bullets come out. The hand cannon also known as the gone or handgone, is the 1st true firearm and the successor of the fire lance. It is the oldest type of small arms as well as the most mechanically simple form of metal barrel firearms. In which bullets loaded from muzzle end.
a) Remington
b) Smith & Wesson
c) John Forsyth
d) Webley & Scott
Explanation: Alexander john Forsyth, Scottish Presbyterian minister and inventor who between 1805 to 1807 produced a percussion lock for firearms that would explode a priming compound with sharp blow, thereby avoiding the priming powder and free, exposed sparks of the flint system.
a) Snaphaunce
b) European wheel lock firearm
c) Percussion Caplock gun
d) Both b & c
Explanation: Snaphaunce was called to be an early form of flintlock firearm which has flint that is attached to the spring-loaded arm. On pressing the trigger, the cover of the flash pan slides of, then the arm snaps and moves forward sticking the flint against the metal plate over the flash pan to produce sparks that ignite the powder.
a) Snaphaunce
b) Arquebus
c) Hacquebut
d) Frizzen
Explanation: Hacquebut is term that is only used for havier calibre wheel lock weapons. Wheel lock means ‘gun with a hook’. This hook was on the bottom of the barrel and placed against the object to minimize the recoil during firing heavier calibre ammunitions.
a) Wheel Lock
b) Match Lock
c) Percussion Lock
d) Flint Lock
1) a, c, d & b
2) b, a, d & c
3) b, c, d & a
4) a, b, d & c
Explanation: Match Lock----- Wheel lock---------- Flint lock---------- Percussion locks it’s the correct sequence. Match lock guns appear in around 1400. Where wheel lock guns appear in 1509, then flint lock guns came in around 1630 and percussion lock guns invented in 18th century.
a) 1955
b) 1959
c) 1961
d) 1964
Explanation: The Indian Arms Act, 1959 is an Act of the parliament of India to consolidate and amend the law relating to arms and ammunition in order to crub illegal weapons and violence stemming from them. It replaced the Indian Arms Act, 1878.
11. Snap lock is following weapon
a) Match Lock
b) Flint Lock Muzzle loader
c) Percussion Lock
d) Wheel Lock
Answer: b) Flint Lock Muzzle loader.
Explanation: Snap lock firearm is also called Snaphaunce. Snaphaunce was called to be an early form of flintlock firearm which has flint that is attached to the spring-loaded arm.
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