The NEF is a resource to help our readers better understand their options in the nailgun market and to get the most out of products they may already have by answering the questions most commonly asked by our readers. The NEF provides information about the engineering of the nailgun itself as well as engineering projects that can be done with a nailgun. A nailgun is a modern hand-held device for driving nails into building materials that is both safer and quicker than primitive methods such as rocks, shoes, dictionaries, and the skulls of heretics. The two main varieties of nailgun are combustion and pneumatic.
Combustions are very similar to real guns.
In these the driving force is provided by a center-fire dummy cartridge in a chamber at the back of the tool which is struck by a firing pin and a barrel directs the explosion's motive force to the nail perched at the business end of the gun. Pneumatics have a tube hooked-up to a tank of compressed air. Depression of the trigger results in a release of highly pressurized air which forces the nail into the material. Less common nailguns include the surly spitting man and the make-believe varieties. Your subjecthood will cease.