firearm

personal weapon using combustion or an explosive charge to propel a projectile
Product weapon_type Q12796
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firearm

Summary

firearm is a weapon type[1]. firearm ranks in the top 3% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,444 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • firearm's image is recorded as Small arms compilation.jpg[3].
  • firearm's image is recorded as Gun from upper west region.jpg[4].
  • firearm's instance of is recorded as weapon type[5].
  • firearm's follows is recorded as early thermal weapons[6].
  • firearm's GND ID is recorded as 4017012-3[7].
  • firearm's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85048533[8].
  • firearm's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119309557[9].
  • firearm's subclass of is recorded as projectile weapon[10].
  • firearm's subclass of is recorded as gun[11].
  • firearm's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575086[12].
  • firearm's Commons category is recorded as Guns[13].
  • firearm's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D005389[14].
  • firearm's Unicode character is recorded as 🔫[15].
  • firearm's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 2456[16].
  • firearm's has part is recorded as gun barrel[17].
  • firearm's has part is recorded as sight[18].
  • firearm's has part is recorded as receiver[19].
  • firearm's has part is recorded as firearm component[20].
  • firearm's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/032rk[21].
  • firearm's MeSH tree code is recorded as J01.637.870.350[22].
  • firearm's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph115656[23].
  • firearm's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Firearms[24].
  • firearm's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX525008[25].
  • firearm's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.442[26].
  • firearm's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 683.4[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for firearm include finger gun[28], a hand gesture[29].

Why It Matters

firearm ranks in the top 3% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,444 views/month).[2] firearm has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] firearm is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for firearm include finger gun[28], a hand gesture[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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