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

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Most jams can be seen with a visual inspection of the chamber. Pull back the slide/charging handle and you can see the chamber. Occasionally a gun will ‘fire’ a squib round that gets stuck in the barrel. short barrels are pretty easy to identify squib rounds with, you can see down them by looking through the chamber. Long barrels would require some disassembly.