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This is a list of weapons served individually by the United States armed forces.While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case for both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.
Hi-Point Firearms.45 ACP United States: HS2000: HS Produkt: 9×19mm Parabellum.357 SIG.40 S&W.45 GAP.45 ACP Croatia: 1999 IWI Jericho 941: Israel Weapons Industries: 9×19mm Parabellum.40 S&W.41 Action Express.45 ACP Israel: 1990 Kahr P series: Kahr Arms.380 ACP 9×19mm Parabellum.40 S&W.45 ACP United States: 1999 Kahr PM series: Kahr Arms: 9× ...
Submachine gun: Brügger & Thomet: 9×19mm Parabellum: Army, Air Force: Machine guns M249 SAW: Light machine gun, squad automatic weapon: FN Herstal: 5.56×45mm NATO: Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force: M240: General purpose medium machine gun: FN Herstal: 7.62×51mm NATO: Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard: M60: General purpose medium ...
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the international framework on firearms is composed of three main instruments: the Firearms Protocol, the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (Programme of Action, or PoA) and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify ...
In March 2011, Utah adopted the M1911 pistol as its state firearm. This gun was designed by Ogden, Utah native John Browning.The adoption was supported by Republican Utah State Representative Carl Wimmer, who said, "It does capture a portion of Utah's history" and "even bigger than that, it captures a portion of American history."
The frame or receiver of a machine gun, and any combination of parts intended to make a machine gun, is legally defined as a machine gun. [8] For example, according to the ATF, "A Glock Switch is a part which was designed and intended for use in converting a semi-automatic Glock pistol into a machine gun; therefore, it is a "machine gun" as ...
The lengths of these guns varied between 56-60 calibers and their weights varied, but their performance was similar. The main variants of gun and mount were: 180 mm/60 B-1-K Pattern 1931 – Naval guns converted from earlier 203 mm guns in MK-1-180 single turrets. 180 mm/57 B-1-P Pattern 1932 – Newly-built naval guns in MK-3-180 triple turrets.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...