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Weatherby firearms are best known for their very high-powered rifle cartridges, all bearing the name Weatherby Magnum such as the .257 Weatherby Magnum (designed in 1944), the .378 Weatherby Magnum (1953) and the .460 Weatherby Magnum (1957), and for the production of appropriately-chambered sporting rifles.
Firearms designer and cartridge pioneer Charles Newton, often colloquially referred to as the "Father of High Velocity", was the first to build a hunting cartridge and rifle capable of firing a bullet at over 3,000 feet per second (910 m/s). Weatherby developed its rifles following this new trend in designing high-velocity hunting calibers.
This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents." [ 3 ] The world's armed forces control about 133 million (about 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belong to two countries, the Russian Federation (30.3 million) and the People's Republic of China (27.5 million). [ 2 ]
Forgotten Weapons frequently features unusual, [2] rare, odd, experimental, [3] or one-off firearms, such as the paratroop versions of the Empire of Japan's Arisaka Type 99 rifle featuring a folding stock attached to a cabinet hinge. [4]
Weapon Caliber In service Variants Photo Country Nagant M1895 7 shot revolver 7.62×38mmR (7.62 mm Nagant) 1895–present still used by some police and security forces
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Carbine – A rare variant with extended barrels and a rifle-type stock totaling 20" in length. [9] Baby LeMat – The rarest variant of the LeMat is a reduced size version with a 4 3/4" barrel, the revolver chambered in .32 caliber, and the shotgun chambered in .41 bore. Only 100 were produced. [9]