School of Criminology

ACTIVITY #8: AMMUNITIONS

OBJECTIVE: This activity aims to:

1. Identify the different kind of ammunitions;
2. Examine the different characteristics of ammunitions;

MATERIALS NEEDED:
Coupon bond
Pencil

PROCEDURE:

1. Review the different kinds of ammunition;

2. Draw/ illustrate the kinds of ammunition;
3. Briefly discuss your observation;
4. Answer the following question.

Legal Definition it refers to ammunition as a “loaded shell” for rifles, muskets, carbines, shotguns,
revolvers and pistols from which a ball, bullet, shot, shell or other missile may be fired by means of
gunpowder or other explosives.

National Internal Revenue Code, Chapter VII, Sec. 290

Revised Administrative Code, Sec. 877

The term also includes ammunition for air rifles as mentioned elsewhere in the Code.

Technical Definition the term ammunition refers to a group of cartridges or to a single unit cartridge-
meaning a complete unfired unit consisting of a bullet, cartridge case, gunpowder and primer.
The term may also refers to a “single round.”

The term cartridge is derived from the word “charta,” the Latin word for paper.

Later on, it came through the French word “cartouche,” meaning a roll of paper, which indicates that the origin
cartridges were not brass gliding-metal tipped units which we are familiar with today.
Draw/ illustrate the following item and write your observation (10 points each)
Ammunition ILLUSTRATION OBSERVATION

5.56 mm

7.62 mm

9 mm

Cal 30
 Cal 45

Cal 38

Cal 22

Draw and label the parts of the following ammunition: (10 pts each)
Caliber 45/ 9mm
5.56mm/ 7.62mm

Caliber 38

CONCLUSION:
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