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The Meunier rifle, known as the "Meunier A6" or "STA No. 8", evolved as a part of the program initiated in 1890 by the French military to develop a semi-automatic infantry rifle that would eventually replace the Mle 1886–93 Lebel rifle. Four government research establishments (STA, ENT, Puteaux and CTV) proposed over 20 prototypes.
A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that fires a single round each time the trigger is pulled, ... Padovan 12.7mm Jerko Padovan, Korcula .50 BMG
The Remington Model R-25 is a semi-automatic gas-operated rifle manufactured by DPMS for Remington Arms.The R-25 is Remington's attempt to join the AR market. It features a free-floating Chrom-Moly fluted barrel and is modeled after the classic AR-10. [1]
Remington 1863 Contract Rifle aka "Zouave Rifle" Remington-Hepburn No. 3 Falling Block Rifle; ... Semi-automatic. Model 11 (Browning Auto-5) Model 11-48;
The Remington Model 7400 is a series of semi-automatic rifles manufactured by Remington Arms. The Model 7400 was a replacement of the Model 740 rifle which Remington produced from 1952 to 1981. [1] The 7400 model was ultimately replaced by the Model 750 in 2006. [1]
The 7mm Remington Magnum rifle cartridge was introduced as a commercially available round in 1962, [2] along with the new Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle. It is a member of the belted magnum family that is directly derived from the venerable .375 H&H Magnum . [ 3 ]
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.
Dieudonne Saive, Fabrique Nationale's then chief firearm designer, experimented with a number of recoil-operated rifle designs in the early 1930s. While little came of these experiments, they would become the basis for a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle, which he patented in 1936 and prototyped in 1937.