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The firing pin doesn't always launch when the firing pin stop drops, it simply is blocked by the firing pin stop and the stop doesn't always fall completely out.
A neat trick is the Evolution Gun Works firing pin stop.
1911 firing pin stops and safeties: critical components to getting any 1911 pistol right
Let's keep those mortar firing pins moving, armorers.
Mortars ... firing pin needs to move
"If I got a yearly written evaluation, I would get failing marks in firing; I am just terrible at it," concedes Ron Shaw, president and CEO of Pilot Pen in Trumbull, Conn.
Firing top guns: why CEOs hate axing their execs -- and often foul it up. (Management)
The old rule was that you changed the M2 barrel at the end of a day of firing no matter how many rounds were fired.
Machine guns ... don't spare the spare barrel
Excitedly he radioed the sighting to the Coast Guard, and within minutes jeeps with mounted 50-caliber machine guns appeared on the beach below his house and began firing into the water.
Smokey's revenge