The 25-year-old overcame a slow start to produce her best form as the field was whittled down and secured victory over India's Malaika Goel and Dorothy Ludwig of Canada with a final score of 198.6 points.
In the men's 10m air rifle, it was India's Abhinav Bindra claimed top place on the podium after achieving a score of 205.3 points, with Abdullah Baki (Bangladesh) and Daniel Rivers (England) completing the top three places.
Scotland's Neil Fachie and his pilot Craig MacLean gave the home crowd plenty to cheer about in the velodrome as they took gold in the men's 1000m time trial B2 tandem ahead of Kieran Modra of Australia and Wales' Matthew Ellis.
Olympic team pursuit gold medallist Joanna Rowsell added Commonwealth gold to her collection with a narrow victory over Australia's Annette Edmondson in the 3000m individual pursuit.
Having been behind in the opening laps of the race, the English rider turned the screw from the halfway stage to take gold by 3.835 secs.
Meanwhile, Rowsell's team-mate Jason Kenny put Thursday's disappointment of facing the repechage behind him to make the final of the men's sprint.
In the pool, home favourite Michael Jamieson was again outshone by Ross Murdoch as the Olympic 200m breaststroke silver medallist had to settle for third behind his team-mate in the 100m heats.
Fran Halsall (England) was fastest in the women's 50m freestyle heats with a Games record 24.31seconds, to break the fastest time only set moment earlier by Australia's Bronte Campbell.
Canada, Australia and Singapore all maintained their unbeaten starts to the Badminton mixed team's group stage, and there were wins for England and New Zealand in the netball.
Nick Matthew, second in the squash world rankings, moved into the quarter-finals with a 3-0 victory over Scotland's Alan Clyne.
In the Judo competition the finals for the men's under 73kilogram and under 81kg events were decided, with the women's under 63kg and under 70kg also taking place later on Friday.