Of a firearm, a tool: Furnished with a stock.

Of a gun: Provided with a breech.

Having a chamber or chambers (in various senses). Originally and frequently with modifying word specifying the number of chambers, as single-chambered…

proved or tested in the arsenal at the Tower of London; also allusively.

without a trigger.

having a hair trigger.

characterized by, involving, or producing a high speed (cf. high-speed, adj.); spec. (of a gun) capable of discharging a projectile with great force…

Furnished or fitted with a sight or sights.

Of or having calibre: chiefly in comparative.

Having no or little recoil, not subjected to or affected by recoil; spec. (of a firearm or piece of ordnance) having the recoil reduced, typically…

The distinctive epithet of an inferior kind of scrap-iron, used for making gun-barrels. Hence of firearms: Of wretched quality, ‘shoddy’.

Of a gun: fitted with a silencer (silencer, n. 2b). Cf. silencered adj. at silencer, n. derivatives.

(of a gun) fitted with a silencer (cf. silenced, adj. 3).

Of a gun, piece of artillery, etc.: capable of firing ammunition of several calibres. Also, of ammunition: of several calibres; (in less specific…