Which stage is the seventh in the sequence?

• A. Feeding
• B. Locking
• C. Ejecting
• D. Chambering

Answer: (C)

In a firearm’s action cycle, the flow moves a cartridge from magazine into the chamber, fires it, and then clears the spent casing so the system can reset for the next shot. The step that removes the spent case happens after the casing has been extracted and is ready to be expelled, and you can’t continue toward readying the next round until that casing is out of the way. That makes the ejecting step fall late in the sequence, which is why it’s placed as the seventh stage in this ordering. The earlier stages deal with feeding a round into position, securing the action, firing, and then preparing the spent casing to be cleared, while chambering the next round comes as the mechanism resets toward the next cycle.