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This category is for commercial firearms of the contemporary Springfield Armory, Inc., of Illinois. For military firearms of the historical Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, see Category:Springfield firearms.
Springfield Armory, Inc., is an American commercial firearms manufacturer and importer based in Geneseo, Illinois. Founded in 1974 by Bob Reese and family, the company produces rifles such as the M1A and imports handguns such as the XD series and Hellcat .
The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, semi-automatic pistol available in the 9×19mm Parabellum and .40 S&W calibers. It was based on a design by American firearms inventor John Browning, and completed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal.
American Springfield Armory Krag (top) in a Spanish–American War museum exhibit. According to contemporary, perhaps sensationalized accounts, the Krag's complex design was outclassed [ 1 ] by the 7mm 1893 Spanish Mauser during the Spanish–American War, and proved ill-suited for use in tropical locales such as Cuba and the Philippines .
HS Produkt d.o.o. is a Croatian firearms manufacturing company, best known for design and production of the HS2000 and XDM series of semi-automatic pistols, [4] [5] which are sold in the United States market by Springfield Armory, Inc., under their XD, XD-S, XD-M, Echelon and Hellcat brandings. [a]
The M1905 bayonet was produced from 1906 to 1922 by Springfield Armory and Rock Island Arsenal. The blade and handle frame were forged as a single piece with a wide, square-shaped fuller , and the crossguard was pinned to this assembly through two holes with cone-shaped steel pins.
The other design was a single-shot break-open, shoulder-fired weapon, the S-3. This was refined into the S-5, which resembled an oversized single-barrel shotgun. Unable to solve the problems with the multi-shot T148 launcher, the Army adopted the S-5 as the XM79. With a new sight, the XM79 was officially adopted as the M79 on December 15, 1960. [8]
The LVOA-C has also been featured in video games such as Tom Clancy's The Division, The Division 2, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, XDefiant, [citation needed] and can even be crafted in the gunsmith (somewhat) in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). [9] [better source needed]