Pump action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by moving a sliding handguard on the gun's forestock. After shooting a round, the sliding handguard is pulled rearward to eject the shel
A Mossberg 500 12-gauge stockless pump-action shotgun with a pistol grip
The RMB-93 pump action shotgun which has the barrel below the magazine tube
The Mossberg 590 pump action shotgun with the barrel over the tubular magazine
The GM-94 Pump action 43mm Russian grenade launcher
A shotgun is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges either numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid pro
Pump action
…Most pump-action firearms use an integral tubular magazine, although others use detachable box magazines. Pump-action mechanisms are typically found in shotguns, although they also may be found in rifles, grenade launchers, and other types of firearms. A firearm using this operating mechanism is colloquially…
A pump-action Remington 870, two semi-automatic Remington 1100 shotguns, 20 boxes of shotgun shells, a clay trap, and three boxes of clay pigeons
A Confederate cavalryman during the American Civil War
A United States Marine carrying a Winchester M97 shotgun during World War II
A view of the break-action of a side-by-side, and an over-and-under double-barreled shotgun, both shown with the action open