“…The most used surface treatments are surface hardening, gas and plasma nitriding, various types of Cr coatings, or duplex coatings that combine said surface treatments (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). For small arms, these modifications are most often used on functional parts of weapons such as barrels, weapon frames (10). PVD coatings are currently widespread in industry in a variety of applications from machine tools to biomedical applications.…”