eli5, How can you tell if a gun is unjammed without shooting it?

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Often times the slide of a pistol will not be closed all the way. It might even have a brass casing stuck in it.

Other than that, opening the slide to verify that nothing is stuck in the chamber (or much less likely the barrel) will be good enough. For pistols anyways. I have no clue about machine guns . . . I think some of them fire from an *open* action and thus everything I wrote might be reversed.

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