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Depends on the type of handgun. In general, a spring drives a firing pin foward, striking the primer of a cartridge. The primer sends a jet of fire into the cartridge case, igniting the gunpowder. Rapidly expanding gasses from the burning powder push the bullet out of the barrel.

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