SEAR - TYPE OR MODEL

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KIJIRO NAMBU

NAMBU MACHINE PISTOLS

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KIJIRO NAMBU

NAMBU MACHINE PISTOLS

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SEAR- TYPE OR MODEL

SEAR
The sear, as part of the firing mechanism is the unit linked between the trigger and the bolt, firing pin assembly or hammer, which under spring pressure, moves clear by trigger function and allows discharge of the round.

SELECTIVE FIRE
The means in which a full automatic weapon that fires continuously with a depressed trigger, can be changed by a lever control to fire only one round each time the trigger is depressed.

SEMI-AUTOMATIC [autoloading, selfloading]
A weapon which travels through a complete operation cycle each time the trigger is depressed.

SUB-MACHINE GUN See Machine Pistol.

SYNCHRONIZATION
An automatic weapon with a timing system adapted to fire between the rotating propeller blades of piston driven engine aircraft.

TYPE OR MODEL
The character is found on many Japanese ordnance items of various descriptions from handguns to cannons. There has been controversy for many years among language students and military collectors as to the proper English designation of either model or type.

The Japanese character is written as Shiki. According to Japanese-English translation dictionaries of the World War II era, among other definitions it includes the English word model without the mention of type. A 1942 “Dictionary of Military Terms” translates Shiki into meaning type or model. The dictionary’s English translation for the word type is Shiki, however the word model does not mention Shiki in its definition. The character Kata is shown in both the English definitions and defined as type, pattern, mark, model.

An English translation of a manual published by Nagoya Army Arsenal in April 1940 refers to the subject: as Model 94 Pistol. Translation date is unknown. The Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Washington D.C. in their publication of August 1945, “Translations of Japanese Ordnance Markings” uses the Shiki word as type and states: “Only one character is used to indicate type classification. “ This character is ‘Shiki’. It appears on artillery shells, bombs, small arms, howitzers, fuses, etc”…. However in their table of type designation using the word Shiki, they translate it as model and again in their table of numbers Shiki “meaning is model”. The “Handbook on Japanese Military forces” War department [U.S.] Technical Manual TM-E-30-480, October 1944- September 1945 in the equipment section refers mostly to ordnance items as models such as the Model 96 and 99 light machine guns. The section on weapons however refers to them as types. This includes small arms, cannon, artillery, ammunition and heavy armored equipment. The book “The Machine Gun” by Lieutenant Colonel George M. Chinn in volume 1 refers to the Japanese Weapons as types, and in the same section refers to the same weapon as models. The photo captions also refer to them as models.

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