What is "firing chamber"

Usage examples of "firing chamber".

They were fed into the firing chamber by working a slide, forward from the open breach position, to seat a round.

Then, he worked on infusing the cartridge in the rifle's firing chamber with the lifeforce darkness, trying to sense from where he was drawing that darkness.

The massive autofire weapon consisted of a cylindrical firing chamber, the eight 20 mm barrels joined in a circle, a top-loading ammunition box and a squat motor, supported by a heavy tripod.

The gun twitched slightly in the master merchant's hand as it fed stun charges one after another into the firing chamber.

Julia tracked her target and fired until the last shell flipped out of the firing chamber.

The twenty-five-millimeter bore made his own eleven-millimeter look like a toy, and the breech was the size of a plasma cannon firing chamber.

His sure hands used a small brass brush to purge each individual firing chamber, spent black powder raining like ebony snow.

For that reason they make it in different shapes, so it will lie loose in the firing chamber, just as a lot of jack-straws are piled up.

He watched the teleceiver screen carefully, made a minute adjustment of the dial controlling the directional beam emitted by the ring in the number-one firing chamber, and at the last possible moment, snapped the remote-control switch that cut the power in the approaching test projectile.

The pellet that dropped into the firing chamber was partially contaminated by carbon.

Pitt fed seven bullets into the magazine and one in the firing chamber.

Sten ran his little finger around the inside of the firing chamber, then wiped off traces of carbon.