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A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
Straight-pull rifle 7.5×55mm Swiss Switzerland Stripper clip with detatchable 6-round box magazine. Ruger Mini-14: Semi-automatic rifle Assault rifle .222 Remington.223 Remington.300 AAC Blackout 5.56×45mm NATO 7.62×39mm 6.8 SPC United States Stripper clip with detatchable 20/30-round box magazines. T48 rifle: Battle rifle 7.62×51mm NATO
Ian Vernon Hogg (1 January 1926 – 7 March 2002) was a British author of books on firearms, artillery, ammunition, and fortification, as well as biographies of several famous general officers. During his career he wrote, co-wrote, edited, or co-edited about 150 books and sold well over 1 million copies.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 19th Century Firearms: An Illustrated History of the Development of the World's Military Firearms During the 19th Century. Crescent Books. p. 216. ISBN 0-517-27786-7. Ricketts, Howard (1964). Firearms. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 115. Rutherford, Kenneth (2020). America's Buried History: Landmines in the Civil ...
The Bureau of Firearms is a bureau of the Division of Law Enforcement of the California Department of Justice responsible for education, regulation, and enforcement relating to manufacture, sales, ownership, safety training, and transfer of firearms. [1]
Battle rifle Japan: 230,000 [170] Lewis gun: Light machine gun United Kingdom: 202,050 Colt Model 1860 Army: Revolver United States: 200,500 [52] MAB Model D pistol: Semi-automatic pistol France: 200,000+ Škorpion vz. 61: Submachine gun Czechoslovakia: 200,000 FM 24/29 light machine gun: Light machine gun France: 190,400 Rast & Gasser M1898 ...
Established in 1999, GunBroker.com is one of the world's largest online marketplace for firearms. [2] GunBroker.com was founded by Steven F. Urvan after eBay started restricting gun sales. [3] [4] Urvan ran the company until it was acquired by Ammo, Inc in 2021. [5] At the closing of merger, it had $60 million in revenue and 6 million ...
M249 light machine gun: FN Herstal: 5.56×45mm: United States 1984 MCR-5.56-DF [4] FIGHTLITE INDUSTRIES 5.56×45mm: United States QJS-161: Norinco: 5.8×42mm: China Heckler & Koch HK21: Heckler & Koch: 7.62×51mm: Germany 1961 KORD-5.45 [5] 5.45×39mm: Russia Type 73 light machine gun: First Machine Industry Bureau 7.62×54mmR: North Korea ...