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According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the international framework on firearms is composed of three main instruments: the Firearms Protocol, the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (Programme of Action, or PoA) and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify ...
Eye relief: For optics such as binoculars or a rifle scope, eye relief is the distance from the eyepiece to the viewer's eye that matches the eyepiece exit pupil to the eye's entrance pupil. Short eye relief requires the observer to press their eye close to the eyepiece in order to see an un-vignetted image. For a shooter, eye relief is an ...
The Model 1940 Light Rifle was assembled from a Tenite buttstock and milled steel parts with blued finish. The short barrel was fluted with twelve longitudinal indentations. A forward grip extending downward from the receiver served as a downward ejection port for spent cartridges and housed a detachable magazine with capacity for 20 cartridges ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The Drogheda Light Horse – 18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) [28] The Drop-short Rifles – Royal Regiment of Artillery; The Dubsters – a composite of 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers [29] (formed between 30 April and 19 May 1915 after both battalions suffered heavy casualties)
The M1944 Hyde Carbine was developed by George Hyde, designed to be a light rifle for the US Armed Forces. The overall weapon was based on the Thompson Submachine Gun, which Hyde drew inspiration from in many of his weapon designs. An original .30 Carbine based on the M1921/27 variants worked well.
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As a light rifle, this arguably filled the same role as the former SS 30 XP 65 As a medium rifle, this was the effective replacement for the SS 50 XP 105 As a heavy rifle, and as the lightest one still in production with a separate pressure reservoir, this effectively replaced the SS 100 XXP 175