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A female worker boring out the barrel of a Lee-Enfield rifle during WWI. Gun barrels are usually made of some type of metal or metal alloy.However, during the late Tang dynasty, Chinese inventors discovered gunpowder, and used bamboo, which has a strong, naturally tubular stalk and is cheaper to obtain and process, as the first barrels in gunpowder projectile weapons such as fire lances. [2]
The concept of a muzzle brake had been experimented with for many years prior to its successful implementation: in 1922, a US Army Ordnance Department official stated in US Congress that "the muzzle brake was used in another form 20 years ago, and even longer ago than that, but it has never been successfully applied".
Glock (German:; stylized as GLOCK) is a brand of polymer-framed, short-recoil-operated, striker-fired, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols designed and produced by Austrian manufacturer Glock Ges.m.b.H.
The VP70 combined a number of design features that were innovative, or at least very unusual for its time: It was the first polymer-framed handgun, predating the Glock 17 by 12 years.
M designates common V threads (like for instance metric threads); Sq designates square threads; Tr designates trapezoidal threads; The shank length is not always the same at the thread length, which is the case if the insert has a threadless portion (sub-shank)
A pepperbox by Allen & Thurber, one of the most common American designs A mid 19th century four barrel Russian pepperbox revolver. The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox (also "pepper-pot", from its resemblance to the household pepper shakers) is a multiple-barrel firearm, mostly in the form of a handgun, that has three or more gun barrels in a revolving mechanism.
Thor XM408 Windrunner Blaser R93 Tactical Bor rifle. A free-floating barrel is a firearm design used in precision rifles, particularly match grade benchrest rifles, to accurize the weapon system.
SIG Pro semi-automatic pistol Battleship USS Iowa fires a full broadside from its nine sixteen-inch naval guns. A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force.