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This is a comprehensive list of armories and arsenals in New York City and surrounding counties of New York [1] [2] (i.e., in the New York metropolitan and downstate New York areas). This list details the structures built between the 18th and 20th century.
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Antique firearms can be divided into two basic types: muzzle-loading and cartridge firing. Muzzleloading antique firearms are not generally owned with the intent of firing them (although original muzzleloaders can be safely fired, after having them thoroughly inspected), but instead are usually owned as display pieces or for their historic value.
Name Image Notes Base: A long, narrow 15th–16th century cannon [1]: Bombard: First recorded use in 1326, made of brass. [2]Culverin: A long-range cannon, first mentioned in 1410 [3]
This is a list of notable types of weapons which saw use in warfare, and more broadly in combat, prior to the advent of the early modern period, i.e., approximately prior to the start of the 16th century.
M134 Minigun: General Electric: 7.62×51mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1960 M240 Medium Machine Gun: Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal: 7.62×51mm NATO: Ammunition belt Belgium: 1950s M249 Machine Gun: Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt/Detachable box magazine Belgium: 1976 M1895 Colt–Browning: Colt's ...
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Bak, J. M. (1982), Hunyadi to Rákóczi: War and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Hungary; Barwick, Humphrey (1594), Breefe Discourse Concerning the Force and Effect of all Manuall of Weapons of Fire…. Benton, Captain James G. (1862). A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery (2 ed.). West Point, New York: Thomas Publications.