Every Firearm Is Open Bolt: Difference between revisions
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Semi-automatic and automatic firearms have two main methods of operation: Open Bolt and Closed Bolt. In an open bolt system, the bolt is back when inactive and goes forward to fire then driven back to its initial position by the firing. In a closed bolt system the bolt is driven backwards, then forward. Most modern firearms, with the exception of some (sub)machine guns, are closed bolt or a hybrid as are nearly all civilian legal firearms.
While these systems have a large host of differences in reliability, accuracy, fire rate, fire modes, compatibility with interrupter gears, and legal regulations (making an open bolt firearm full auto proof is extremely difficult) one of the most obvious
In most video games however, even otherwise "realistic" ones, ''every'' firearm behaves as though it were open bolt in regards to chambered rounds. Your maximum capacity will always be the magazine capacity and the reload animation will always feature characters manually cambering a new round, even when not reloading from empty. The only common exceptions are firearms that are actually open bolt, and those that do not feed from detachable magazines including shotguns (both pump action and break action, but not magazine fed), belt feds, grenade launchers, single shot firearms and revolvers.
Overlaps with [[Right-Handed Left-Handed Guns]] and [[One Bullet Clips]].
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