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Manufacturer Image Cartridge Country Type Year AA-52 machine gun: Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne: 7.62×51mm NATO 7.5×54mm French France General-purpose machine gun: 1952 Danuvia 43M: Danuvia Gepgyar: 9×25mm Mauser Hungary: Submachine gun: 1939 FAMAS: Nexter: 5.56×45mm NATO France Bullpup assault rifle: 1978 FNAB-43: Fabbrica ...
A schematic of the lever-delayed blowback mechanism used in the FAMAS assault rifle. Lever-delayed blowback utilizes leverage to put the bolt at a mechanical disadvantage, delaying the opening of the breech. When the cartridge pushes against the bolt face, the lever moves the bolt carrier rearward at an accelerated rate relative to the light bolt.
The Oerlikon SSG36 anti-tank rifle demonstrated, that it was possible to build a successful straight blowback rifle up to 20 mm caliber shooting at 750 m/s (2,500 ft/s) velocity. The SSG36 used a Becker principle of bolt head following the rebated rim cartridge base deep into the chamber. After firing, the case and the bolt could safely back ...
Here are 8 gun manufacturers that pride themselves on being 100% domestically manufactured. ... young Henry designed a revolutionary lever-action rifle with a 16-round magazine, forever changing ...
A Hi-Point JCP pistol. Hi-Point semi-automatic pistols are polymer framed handguns based on the blowback design. Different from other blowback design pistols such as the Walther PPK, the P-64, and the Astra 600 which use a heavy slide combined with a stiff recoil spring to hold the breech closed, these pistols use a heavier slide so they can use a softer recoil spring.
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The TAC-1 is an open bolt, blowback-operated firearm that uses a screw-delayed blowback operation that was first used on Mikhail Kalashnikov's submachine gun prototype. The weapon has a grip safety as well as a safety lever on the left side of the receiver, over the pistol grip.
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