Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27923854-20180203151325/@comment-27923854-20180205195303

Ok, after some quick research, it seems that the word "slamfire" can be used in reference to three things:

The first and most common meaning is a malfunction in a semi or fully automatic firearm that can cause a a cartridge to be unintentionally fired. This happens when a free floating firing pin slides forward when the slide is released, striking the primer and firing a round. If the round does not go off, it's called a "light primer strike."

A second usage of the word refers to a homemade firearm design in which a round is fired by loading it in a sliding barrel and slamming it into a fixed firing pin. One example is a homemade shotgun made by Royalnonesuch (on YouTube).

And the third definition is the slamfire we all know and love, where you hold the trigger and pump a slide repeatedly, firing a round with each cycling of the action. To my knowledge the only real steel firearm with this feature are a couple of old, out-of-production pump action shotguns, from Ithaca and Winchester. There are no slamfire guns in production now, because slamfire could actually be construed as fully automatic fire, which is illegal.

I suppose triggerless pump action blasters could also be called slamfire?