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  2. Gun laws in Wyoming - Wikipedia

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    According to the Office of the Attorney General of Wyoming, Wyoming state law (W.S. § 6-8-104) provides for the issuance of concealed firearm permits.As a "shall issue" state, the local sheriff's office is required to issue a permit upon request, unless there is a valid reason to deny (such as violent felony conviction).

  3. List of multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    Bailey machine gun: Winchester Repeating Arms Company.32 rifle cartridge United States: 1874 Caldwell machine gun.303 British Australia: 1915 Colt Mk 11 cannon: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 20x110mm USN United States: EX-17 Heligun: Hughes Aircraft Company: 7.62x51mm NATO United States: 1962 Feldl gun: 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger

  4. Gun barrel - Wikipedia

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    A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns. It is the straight shooting tube, usually made of rigid high-strength metal , through which a contained rapid expansion of high-pressure gas(es) is used to propel a projectile out of the front end ( muzzle ) at a high velocity.

  5. Gauge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) and other necessary parameters to define in general a smoothbore barrel (compare to caliber, which defines a barrel with rifling and its cartridge).

  6. Polygonal rifling - Wikipedia

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    Conventional eight groove rifling on the left, and octagonal polygonal rifling on the right. Polygonal rifling (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ ɡ ə n əl / pə-LIG-ə-nəl) is a type of gun barrel rifling where the traditional sharp-edged "lands and grooves" are replaced by less pronounced "hills and valleys", so the barrel bore has a polygonal (usually hexagonal or octagonal) cross-sectional profile.

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  8. Siege of the TA Ranch - Wikipedia

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    The siege of the TA Ranch was a siege and the climax of the Johnson County War, which happened on April 11–13, 1892 in the TA Ranch in Johnson County, Wyoming. [1] [2]The battle was fought between a group of cattle barons and their hired guns, who were trapped in the TA Ranch, and a posse of homesteaders and local lawmen who had besieged them after dozens of ranchers and their mercenaries ...

  9. Freedom Arms Model 83 .500 WE - Wikipedia

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    Model 83 .500 WE is a single action revolver manufactured by Freedom Arms chambered for the .500 Wyoming Express round. In the 1986 film Armed and Dangerous, John Candy brandishes a Freedom Arms Model 83 chambered in .454 Casull (with scope), claiming it's "a .50 caliber," designed for "hunting buffalo...up close." Candy adds that the firearm ...