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A semi-automatic rifle is a firearm that automatically reloads after firing and discharges a single round of ammunition per trigger pull. It utilizes a portion of the expelled cartridge's energy to eject the spent case, and automatically loads another cartridge into its chamber.
The magazine is also inserted behind the trigger group [5] (technically it only needs the magazine's feeding slot to be located behind the trigger for the gun to be classified as a bullpup), but in some designs such as the Heckler & Koch G11, FN P90 and Neostead, the magazine can extend forward beyond the trigger.
John H. Blake of New York constructed his rifle in response to the fact that very few domestic designs were submitted to US Army rifle trials (1890–93). [1] The rotary magazine was unique because it was detachable, whereas other rifles at the time using similar type of feed used non-detachable rotary magazines (Savage M1892).
The cover art for the Eddie Eagle Kids' Activity Booklet, Pre-K and Kindergarten edition. The Eddie Eagle GunSafe program and its namesake character were developed in 1988 by the National Rifle Association of America for children who are generally considered too young to be allowed to handle firearms. The Eddie Eagle program is intended for ...
Falling-block action military rifles were common in the 19th century. They were replaced for military use by the faster bolt-action rifles, which were typically reloaded from a magazine holding several cartridges. [2] A falling-block breech-loading rifle was patented in Belgium by J. F. Jobard in 1835 using a unique self-contained cartridge. [3]
In 1876 he travelled to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia to study numerous construction designs and afterwards drafted several types of repeating rifles with tubular magazines. In 1885-1886 he patented the "Mannlicher System" of a breechblock on a bolt-action basis, which was adopted as a service rifle by the Austro-Hungarian Army in ...
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The Lee Model 1879 rifle was a landmark rifle design, incorporating a turn-bolt action and a spring-loaded column-feed detachable box magazine system. this was Lee's first successful magazine-fed repeating rifle. Two first designs—Model 1879 and Model 1882 were adopted by China and the US Navy, and two later designs—the Remington-Lee M1885 ...