single-shot firearm

In firearm designs, the term single-shot refers to guns that can hold only a single round of ammunition inside and thus must be reloaded manually after every shot. Compared to multi-shot repeating firearms ("repeaters"), single-shot designs have no moving parts other than the trigger, hammer/firing pin or frizzen, and therefore do not need a sizable receiver behind the barrel to accommodate a moving action, making them far less complex and more robust than revolvers or magazine/belt-fed firearms, but also with much slower rates of fire.

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single-shot; single-shot gun
firearm, single-shot weapon, 
File:Cooper Single Shot Bolt Action Rifle.jpg
arquebus, Ballard Rifle, Breda M37, Browning BLR, firearm, Franchi SPAS-15, Furrer submachine gun, Hwacha, Marlin Model 336, musket, samopal, single shot pistol, single-shot rifle, single-shot weapon, Smålänning, Springfield Model 1892-99, weapon type, 

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  arquebus ⓘ
  long gun of the 15th century

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  Ballard Rifle ⓘ
  single shot, breechloading longarm used during the late American Civil War

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  musket ⓘ
  muzzle-loaded long gun firearm

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  samopal ⓘ
  early East European firearm

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  single shot pistol ⓘ
  pistol with one-round capacity

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  single-shot rifle ⓘ
  rifle that holds one round of ammunition

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	weapon		arquebus	single-shot firearm, long gun	Wikidata
class	weapon		Ballard Rifle	single-shot firearm, breechloader, long gun	Wikidata
class	weapon		musket	muzzle loader, black powder gun, smoothbore, single-shot firearm	Wikidata
class	weapon		samopal	single-shot firearm	Wikidata
class	weapon		single shot pistol	pistol, single-shot firearm	Wikidata
class	weapon		single-shot rifle	single-shot firearm, rifle	Wikidata