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  2. Sabot (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Driving bands and obturator rings are made from material that will deform and seal the barrel as the projectile is forced from the chamber into the barrel. Sabots use driving bands and obturators, because the same manufacturing tolerance issues exist when sealing the saboted projectile in the barrel, but the sabot itself is a more substantial ...

  3. 2mm Pinfire - Wikipedia

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    The 2mm Pinfire is a pistol cartridge for small 2mm-chambered pinfire guns. The projectile is comparable in size to a small shotgun pellet, and pistols chambered for 2mm rounds are often carried on a keychain. In the United States, 2mm pinfire guns are considered antiques or signaling devices and are not classified as firearms under federal law ...

  4. .400 Cor-Bon - Wikipedia

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    As of July 4, 2008, the following companies offer .400 Corbon conversion barrels: Clark Custom Guns offers drop-in standard and compensated barrels for 1911s; [31] EFK Fire Dragon offers them for 1911s, Glocks, Sig 200, HK USP, and the Springfield XD; [32] Jarvis Inc. offers them for 1911s; [33] King's Gun Works also offers them for 1911s; [34 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Caliber conversion device - Wikipedia

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    This additional force allowed the small .22 Long Rifle cartridge to cycle a standard weight slide, which made the pistol handle more like the standard .45 ACP version. [ 11 ] Another cartridge conversion was the Pedersen device , which was designed to convert the bolt action Springfield 1903 Mark I into a 40 shot blowback semi-automatic firearm ...

  7. 9×23mm Winchester - Wikipedia

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    The 9×23mm Winchester is a pistol cartridge developed as a joint venture by Winchester Ammunition and Colt's Manufacturing Company. [2] The 9×23mm Winchester has a convoluted development history, but was commercially introduced by Winchester in 1996.

  8. Category:Multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 24 November 2021, at 07:20 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  9. Gravity gun - Wikipedia

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    A gravity gun as featured in Half-Life 2 and its Episodes. A gravity gun is a type of device in video games, particularly first-person shooters using physics engines, whereby players can directly manipulate objects in the world, often allowing them to be used as projectiles against hostile characters.