This sale is for a USCG Approved Kilgore Corp Model B 160 Flair Gun and 12 Parachute Flairs. We bought this at an estate sale of a late offshore Drilling Superintendent. Family said that had no idea when he got it or if it had ever been used. It looks like it has never been fired and the box of parachute flares is full of 12 flares, wbhich we have no idea if they will still fire or not. It operates just like a regular pistol as it has a trigger, a cock-able hammer with a firing pin and breaks open to load.