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S. C. Robinson Arms Manufactory (Samuel C. Robinson) Richmond, Virginia: Produced a variant of the M1859 Sharps carbine: ca. 3,000 .52 caliber Sharps carbines. Marks, “Robinson Arms Co.” Selma Naval Foundry & Ironworks (Selma Arsenal & Gun Works) Selma, Alabama: 1861 Iron plating, Brooke rifled cannon, ironclad ships: over 70 Brooke rifles
CETME Model A: Empresa Nacional Santa Bárbara: 7.92x41mm CETME Spain no c.1954-? CETME Model B: CETME: 7.62×51mm CETME; 7.62x51mm NATO Spain yes 1961-? CETME Model L: CETME: 5.56×45mm NATO Spain yes 1986-1991 Colt 933: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO United States yes 1995-present Colt ACR: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56× ...
Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company is a firearms manufacturer located in Big Timber, Montana, United States.. The company produces a line of reproductions of various historical black-powder rifles, including the legendary 1874 Sharps Rifle, featured in the 1990 Western film Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck.
By 1935 a license to produce repeating rifles of the Mauser Model 98 system has been acquired, production would go on until the early 1940s mid-war. Pre-war conversion kits as training devices, with subcaliber 'Insert Barrels' like the type 'Erma EL 24' (EL for 'Einstecklauf'), would also be sold for those weapons systems.
Olympic Arms, Inc. was founded by Robert Charles Schuetz and began as Schuetzen Gun Works (SGW) in 1956, manufacturing barrels in Colorado Springs, Colorado.Prior to that Mr. Schuetz had been partnered in business with well-known gunsmith P.O. Ackley.
III Lee–Enfield rifles for 15,000 vz. 24s; Brno Arms Works in turn sold the Lee–Enfields to Iraq. [14] During World War II, Latvian resistance fighters employed the vz. 24s that had been ordered by the Latvian Army against the German occupation forces. [15] The vz. 24 also saw action in the Spanish Civil War by the Catalan Republican troops.
The Pattern 1836 featured the original back action lock and the single compartment patch box. The first of these were 0.654 inches (16.6 mm) caliber. This was changed fairly early in the rifle's life, and most were 0.704 inches (17.9 mm) caliber. All subsequent patterns were 0.704 inches (17.9 mm) caliber.
The Bren was a gas-operated weapon using the same .303 ammunition as the standard British bolt-action rifle, the Lee–Enfield, firing at a rate between 480 and 540 rounds per minute (rpm), depending on the model. Propellant gases vented from a port towards the muzzle end of the barrel through a regulator (visible just in front of the bipod ...