How to Use firing pin in a Sentence

firing pin

noun

• It’s when your firing pin only dents the primer and the round goes off at half the force.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• When the cord was tripped, the bottle was supposed to swing down and hit a firing pin on the closed end of the pipe.
  — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2014
• That allowed the hammer to fall and the firing pin to detonate the primer.
  — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
• The hum of the crowd was broken rhythmically by the throaty sound of guns being charged and the sharp click of firing pins.
  — Ashley Gilbertson, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• As the name of the book suggests, in the chamber of the firearm is one real bullet, and that one may now be under the firing pin.
  — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
• The bullets sit on a small mound of gunpowder which burns when a gun’s firing pin strikes a primer at the base of the casing.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2018
• What’s a fore-end and how does a firing pin detonate a cartridge?
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2020
• The headstamp refers to the indentation a gun's firing pin leaves on the end of a shell casing as a bullet is fired.
  — Josh Campbell, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
• Raising the button lowers the transfer bar away from the hammer and firing pin, making the gun safe.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 8 Oct. 2019
• New leaf springs in the action make for faster and more precise firing pin engagement.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 June 2020
• In the most basic sense, guns work like this: a bullet is loaded into the rear of the barrel, which is a tube connected to the firing pin.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• In the most basic sense, guns work like this: A bullet is loaded into the rear of the barrel, which is a tube connected to the firing pin.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Dec. 2020
• The gun was loaded with four rounds of Hornady .38 Special ammo, but none was under the firing pin, the report said.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Contact points on the bolts are polished, and the firing pin is pinned to remove any vertical movement.
  — Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 22 Feb. 2021
• When each of the six barrels moves into place, the firing pin explodes a small propellant, forcing the shell out of the casing and into the breech of the barrel.
  — Kevin Brown, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
• No sales are allowed at the show, firing pins are removed from all guns on display, and there is no live ammunition.
  — Lisa Marie Pane, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018
• Any dust or fouling that has accumulated around the firing pin and spring can make matters worse.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2021
• Scott returned in February to deliver the gun — minus firing pin, of course.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• When the trigger is pulled, a firing pin strikes the rear of the ammunition cartridge, igniting the powder, which burns extremely fast and forces the bullet down the barrel of a firearm.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• In modern revolvers, a single pull of the trigger advances the cylinder to a fresh cartridge, pulls back the hammer, and releases the hammer to strike the primer with the firing pin, firing the handgun.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
• But Villegas grabs the gun, squeezing his forefinger into the space between the pistol’s cocked hammer and firing pin, just as Valdez pulls the trigger.
  — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• An inverted nail emerged from the head of each pipe, serving as a firing pin; the fins caused the pipe to spiral vertically, pushing the nail into a blasting cap on impact.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Police allegedly found a revolver loaded with four rounds of ammunition, but the firing pin was empty, per WTHR.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2023
• On the most common type of grenade used by Ukrainian drone operators, three safety devices, including a small metal plate protecting the firing pin from accidentally striking the primer, are taken out and thrown away.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• The hammer caused a firing pin to strike the base of a cartridge, igniting the primer and firing the bullet.
  — Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
• The upper receiver includes such parts as the bolt group and the firing pin.
  — Nbc News, NBC news, 30 July 2025
• According to investigators, the firing pin struck the primer, but the weapon failed to discharge.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 May 2024
• The handgun was missing the magazine and the back plate and the firing pin.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024