Extractor

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What Wikipedia says

In breechloading firearms, an extractor is an action component that serves to remove spent casings of previously fired cartridges from the chamber, in order to vacate the chamber for loading a fresh round of ammunition. It is also essential for removing a live round from the firearm.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Extractor (firearms)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Clay Garland, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.