firing pin

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   striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer

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   Part offirearm

Questions about firing pin

What does firing pin mean?

firing pin means "striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer".

Is firing pin a common word?

firing pin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.