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  2. Ammunition box - Wikipedia

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    An ammunition box or cartridge box is a container designed for safe transport and storage of ammunition. It is typically made of metal, wood, and corrugated fiberboard, etc. Boxes are labelled with caliber, quantity, and manufacturing date, lot number, UN dangerous goods labels.

  3. Belt (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A 200-round M249 ammunition belt pouch attached to an Ares Shrike 5.56 via a magazine well adapter block. Flexible belts tend to hang downwards with gravity and randomly whip around with recoil during continuous firing, which can sometimes kink/twist and cause feeding malfunctions. Free-hanging belts can also get dirty/messy with exposure to ...

  4. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American ...

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    Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile is a non-fiction book by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, first published in 1965.Its central theme is that car manufacturers resisted the introduction of safety features (such as seat belts), and that they were generally reluctant to spend money on improving safety.

  5. M-1956 load-carrying equipment - Wikipedia

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    The M-1956 LCE continued application of the belt-supported-by-suspenders concept, adopted by the U.S. Army at least as early as the pattern 1903 equipment. [2] The M-1956 "Belt, Individual Equipment" or pistol belt differed little in form and function from the M-1936 pistol belt and would accommodate any of the pouches and equipment that would mount on the M-1936 belt.

  6. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    En bloc clip and 8mm ammo for the Gewehr 88 Swedish Mauser stripper clip loaded with Swedish 6.5×55mm. The bolt-action Krag–Jørgensen rifle, designed in Norway in 1886, used a unique rotary magazine that was built into the receiver. Like Lee's box magazine, the rotary magazine held the rounds side-by-side, rather than end-to-end.

  7. Police duty belt - Wikipedia

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    A British police officer's duty belt, with Hiatts Speedcuffs, handcuff keys and CS spray visible.. A police duty belt (sometimes referred to as a gun belt, "duty rig" and/or kit belt [1]) is a belt, typically constructed of nylon or leather used by police, prison and security officers to carry equipment easily in a series of pouches attached to the belt, in a readily-accessible manner, while ...

  8. Seat belt - Wikipedia

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    The first car with a three-point belt was a Volvo PV 544 that was delivered to a dealer in Kristianstad on August 13, 1959. The first car model to have the three-point seat belt as a standard item was the 1959 Volvo 122, first outfitted with a two-point belt at initial delivery in 1958, replaced with the three-point seat belt the following year ...

  9. Bean bag round - Wikipedia

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    The bean bag round typically consists of a small fabric "pillow" filled with #9 lead shot weighing about 40 grams (1.4 oz). It is fired from a normal 12-gauge shotgun.When fired, the bag is expelled at around 70 to 90 metres per second (230 to 300 ft/s); it spreads out in flight and distributes its impact over about 6 square centimetres (1 sq in) of the target.