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  2. Blowback (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Most simple blowback rifles are chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. Popular examples include the Marlin Model 60 and the Ruger 10/22. Most blowback carbines and submachine guns are chambered for pistol cartridges such as the 9×19mm Parabellum, .40 S&W and .45 ACP. Examples include the MP 40, Sten and UZI. The bolt can be made bigger ...

  3. List of rebated-rim cartridges - Wikipedia

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    Rebated-rim cartridges are known to be used on firearms using advanced primer ignition (API blowback) for its operation, notably autocannons such as the 20 mm Becker/Oerlikon series. [1] API blowback firearms have straight-sided chamber walls as possible (and sometimes slightly bottlenecked) to contain the cartridge and allow a deeper chambering.

  4. Repeating firearm - Wikipedia

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    Simple blowback action is simple and inexpensive to manufacture, but is limited in the power it can handle, so it is seen on small caliber weapons such as machine pistols and submachine guns. Lever-delayed blowback, as seen in for example the French FAMAS assault rifle, can also handle more powerful cartridges but is more complicated and ...

  5. List of API blowback firearms - Wikipedia

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    Name/ designation Year of intro Country of origin Primary cartridge Type Mk 19: 1968 United States 40x53mm: Daewoo K4: 1993 South Korea 40x53mm: Heckler & Koch GMG: 2000s Germany ...

  6. OTs-21 Malysh - Wikipedia

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    The Malysh operates on the simple blowback principle; it is a double action only design with the ammunition capacity limited to five 9×18mm Makarov rounds (can use only 57-N-181S cartridges) in a box magazine with a base extension for more comfortable holding and firing. It features an internal hammer and there are no protrusions to hinder ...

  7. Blowback - Wikipedia

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    "Blowback" , a 2010 episode of Justified "Blowback" (Alias episode) Blowback ; Blowback ; Blowback, a podcast about American history and foreign policy; Blowback ; Blowback Productions, an independent film and television production company founded in 1988 by Marc Levin. Along with producing partner, Daphne Pinkerson, they have made over 20 ...

  8. Physics of firearms - Wikipedia

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    According to Newtonian mechanics, if the gun and shooter are at rest initially, the force on the bullet will be equal to that on the gun-shooter. This is due to Newton's third law of motion (For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction). Consider a system where the gun and shooter have a combined mass m g and the bullet has a mass m b.

  9. List of delayed-blowback firearms - Wikipedia

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    Submachine gun: 1943 Garanin general-purpose machine guns: 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: General-purpose machine gun: 1957 MAC-58: Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne.50 BMG France Heavy machine gun: 1958 San Cristobal Carbine: Armería San Cristóbal Weapon Factory.30 Carbine Dominican Republic: Carbine: 1950 ST Kinetics CPW: ST Kinetics: 9× ...