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A rifle is a long gun that has riflings (spiral grooves) machined into the bore (inner) surface of its barrel, imparting a gyroscopically stabilizing spin to the bullets that it fires. A descendant of the musket, rifles produce a single point of impact with each firing with a long range and high accuracy.
Ruger 10/22 - .22 Long Rifle SKS Type 56 - 7.62×39mm Colt AR-15 SP1 - .223 Remington Drawing of the Mannlicher 1885 semi-automatic rifle by Ferdinand Mannlicher, one of the earliest semi-automatic rifle designs. Prague Castle Guard carrying the Czechoslovak vz. 52 rifle
Patent drawing of the Henry rifle. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech-loading lever-action rifle, patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860 after three years of design work. [2] The Henry was an improved version of the earlier Volition, and later Volcanic.
Rolling-block breech Joseph Rider's 1865 patent drawings. A rolling-block action is a single-shot firearm action where the sealing of the breech is done with a specially shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin. [1]
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company.It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle.
The Brooke rifle was a type of rifled, muzzle-loading naval and coast defense gun designed by John Mercer Brooke, [1] an officer in the Confederate States Navy. They were produced by plants in Richmond, Virginia , and Selma, Alabama , between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War .
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifle, Anti air cannon and any other variants.
The AK-47 was designed to be a simple, reliable fully automatic rifle that could be manufactured quickly and cheaply, using mass production methods that were state of the art in the Soviet Union during the late 1940s. [41] The AK-47 uses a long-stroke gas system generally associated with high reliability in adverse conditions.