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  2. Lee–Enfield - Wikipedia

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    The LeeEnfield family of rifles is the second oldest bolt-action rifle design still in official service, after the Mosin–Nagant. [13] LeeEnfield rifles are used by reserve forces and police forces in many Commonwealth countries, including Malawi. In Canada the .303 and .22 models were being phased out between 2016 and 2019.

  3. Charlton automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Charlton automatic rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the LeeEnfield rifle, designed by New Zealander Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time.

  4. Royal Small Arms Factory - Wikipedia

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    LeeEnfield rifles - using the Lee bolt action. There were 13 variants from 1895 to 1957. Pattern 1913 Enfield.276 Enfield experimental rifle, 1913; Pattern 1914 Enfield Rifle: intended as a LeeEnfield replacement, mainly used by snipers in World War I. Bren (Brno + Enfield), .303 Light machine gun from 1935 onwards. Sten (Shepherd, Turpin ...

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Lee ...

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    To the casual reader interested in Lee-Enfield rifles, such a layout would facilitate absorbtion of the facts as well as being correct. Seeing as the P14/Rifle No.3 has been included, perhaps you'd include a short paragraph on the Enfield Model 2 rifle, which was adopted as the Rifle No. 9 in 1951

  6. L42A1 - Wikipedia

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    The L42A1 was a 7.62×51mm NATO conversion of the Second World War era .303 British chambered LeeEnfield Rifle No. 4 Mk1(T) and No. 4 Mk1*(T), which had remained in service for some time after the 7.62×51mm NATO L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle replaced the Rifle No.4 as the standard service rifle in 1957.

  7. No.8 rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Rifle, Number 8 (commonly referred to as the "Number 8 Rifle" or the "Number 8 Cadet Rifle") is a bolt-action.22 calibre version of the LeeEnfield rifle designed for British Army target shooting. They are simple single-shot, hand-fed cadet rifles and were

  8. Wikipedia : WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Lee-Enfield

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    The Lee-Enfield is, of course, one of the most influential firearms in history and one of the Core Topics of the "Technology" aspect of the WWI Centenary Drive. As such, I'd like to think it warrants a much better rating than "B" and would like some feedback and assistance on how to get it to Featured Article status; or at least an improvement ...

  9. .276 Enfield - Wikipedia

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    The .276 Enfield was designed with the intent of being more powerful than the .303 British cartridge used in the LeeEnfield rifles and to be at least similar in size and performance to other large, powerful early 20th century military rifle cartridges, like the .280 Ross, 7.92×57mm Mauser, .30-06 Springfield and 7.5×55mm Swiss GP11.