firing pin

English

Cut-away view of an M14 antipersonnel landmine, showing the integral firing pin

Noun

firing pin (plural firing pins)

1. (firearms) The part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer in order to ignite the gunpowder.

Translations

part of the firing mechanism

• Bulgarian: ударник (bg) m (udarnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擊針 / 击针 (zh) (jīzhēn), 撞針 / 撞针 (zh) (zhuàngzhēn)

• Czech: zápalník m
• Danish: slagstift c
• Dutch: slagpin (nl) m
• Finnish: iskuri (fi), nallipiikki
• French: percuteur (fr) m
• German: Schlagbolzen m
• Italian: percussore (it) m
• Japanese: 撃針 (ja) (gekishin)
• Polish: iglica (pl) f
• Russian: боёк (ru) m (bojók), уда́рник (ru) m (udárnik)

Further reading

• firing pin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia