SMALL ARMS WITH AMMUNITION Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: production and employment of small arms and ammunition used both for the military purpose as a means of protection and attack, and for sporting purpose. SUBSTANCE: small arms with ammunition has a body, feeder of cartridges to the barrel and trigger mechanism secured in it. In the rear part of the barrel provision is made for a sealed bottom accommodating the trigger mechanism element in the form of a spark gap, opening for delivery of cartridge to the barrel and a cartridge catch in the barrel. The cartridge has no case and primer cap. The spark gap may be made in the form of a piezoelectric crystal with an electrode directed inside the barrel, or electrocontacts connected to an electric feeder and closing the electric circuit by an element, for example, button, plate, core. EFFECT: simplified design. 3 cl, 6 dwg