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  2. Silencer (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Cutaway of a suppressor A silencer , also known as a sound suppressor , suppressor , or sound moderator , is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun ( firearm or airgun ) is discharged, thereby reducing the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report (sound of a gunshot) and jump , by modulating the speed and pressure of the ...

  3. Heckler & Koch P7 - Wikipedia

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    A schematic of the P7's gas-delayed blowback system.. The P7 is a semi-automatic blowback-operated firearm. It features a unique gas-delayed blowback system modeled on the Swiss Pistole 47 W+F (Waffenfabrik Bern) prototype pistol [6] (and ultimately on the Barnitzke system first used in the Volkssturmgewehr 1-5), [7] which used gas pressures from the ignited cartridge and fed them through a ...

  4. Glock - Wikipedia

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    Glock (German:; stylized as GLOCK) is a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, striker-fired, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.H. The firearm entered Austrian military and police service in 1982 after becoming the top performer in reliability and safety tests. [11]

  5. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    With the increased use of semi-automatic and automatic firearms, the detachable magazine became increasingly common.Soon after the adoption of the M1911 pistol, the term "magazine" was settled on by the military and firearms experts, though the term "clip" is often used in its place (though only for detachable magazines, never fixed).

  6. Heckler & Koch G11 - Wikipedia

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    The Heckler & Koch G11 is a non-production prototype assault rifle developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by Gesellschaft für Hülsenlose Gewehrsysteme (GSHG) (German for "Association for Caseless Rifle Systems"), a conglomeration of companies headed by firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch (mechanical engineering and weapon design), Dynamit Nobel (propellant composition and projectile ...

  7. Gaston Glock - Wikipedia

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    Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman.He founded the company Glock.When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development of HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models.

  8. Machine pistol - Wikipedia

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    Man firing a fully automatic 9×19mm Glock 18 machine pistol with a shoulder stock. The 9 mm Parabellum Glock 18 is a select-fire variant of the Glock 17, developed in 1986 at the request of the Austrian counter-terrorist unit EKO Cobra. This machine pistol has a lever-type select-fire switch, installed on the left side, at the rear of the ...

  9. Ruger Mini-14 - Wikipedia

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    Anders Behring Breivik used a Mini-14, along with a Glock 34, in the 2011 Norway attacks, [70] during which he fatally shot sixty-seven people on an island summer camp and was further responsible for eight additional deaths in a bombing in Oslo. It was Norway's deadliest attack since World War II. [71]