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  2. Knight's Armament Company - Wikipedia

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    Knight's Armament Company (KAC) is an American firearms and firearms parts manufacturer, known for producing the Rail Interface System (RIS) and the Rail Adapter System (RAS) grips for firearms use. The company produces a variety of firearms, including AR-15-style rifles.

  3. Caliber conversion device - Wikipedia

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    Cartridge adapters have also been made to use .38 caliber handgun cartridges with bullet diameters of approximately .357-inch (9.1 mm) in .35 caliber rifles designed for bullets of .358-inch (9.1 mm) diameter. [3] Supplemental chambers in .22 caliber, and potentially .17 caliber as well, pose a special problem not shared by larger calibers.

  4. List of modern armament manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym, if any, in parentheses. The country the company is based in, if the ...

  5. M1 grenade adapter - Wikipedia

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    The M2 chemical grenade projection adapter was designed to launch cylindrical chemical grenades like smoke, white phosphorus, and tear gas. The chemical grenade was inserted into the short prongs on the base disc; a spring-loaded metal collar (called a "set-back band") slid over the middle kept the arming lever from releasing.

  6. Gun shop - Wikipedia

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    High Bridge Arms, pictured in January 2012, was a notable gun shop that was located in San Francisco, California. [1]A gun shop (also known by various other names such as firearm store and gun store) is a business that sells firearms, such as handguns and long guns, to individuals in an open shopping format.

  7. Blank-firing adapter - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Army soldiers in UCP ACUs training with their M4 carbines fitted with bright yellow blank-firing adapters.. A blank-firing adapter or blank-firing attachment (BFA), [1] sometimes called a blank adapter or blank attachment, is a device used in conjunction with blank ammunition for safety reasons, functional reasons or a combination of them both.

  8. List of nuclear weapon explosion sites - Wikipedia

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    An area near the Trinity site is designated the Permanent High Explosive Test Site (PHETS) and was used in the 1980s to host very large ANFO blasts for international testing of military gear. The Trinity nuclear site was originally private property taken over by the Army to test the plutonium implosion weapon, the first nuclear explosion on Earth.

  9. List of 3D-printed weapons and parts - Wikipedia

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    Weapon: M1911 pistol Semi-autonatic Recoil operation: DMLS [25] Solid Concepts [26] 10mm Auto: Created roughly after a year the first-known metal 3D-printed gun was produced. [24] Has the word "Reason" etched on it, along with an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence on the barrel. [25] XPR-1 [27] 2015, October Weapon: Plasma Armature ...