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  2. Muzzle-loading rifle - Wikipedia

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    A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore, and is loaded from the muzzle of the barrel rather than the breech.. Historically they were developed when rifled barrels were introduced by the 1740ies, which offered higher accuracy than the earlier smooth

  3. Stevens Arms - Wikipedia

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    Stevens Arms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs. By 1902, they were advertising themselves as "the largest producers of sporting arms in the world". [1]

  4. Hooked on History: Harrison County's gunmakers brought ... - AOL

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    CADIZ − The 23 hunting rifles on display at the Puskarich Public Library earlier this month represented perhaps the largest assemblage ever of weapons manufactured by Harrison County gunmakers ...

  5. Category:Guns of the American West - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Guns of the American West" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. ... Long rifle; M. M1819 Hall rifle; M1885 Remington–Lee;

  6. List of rifles - Wikipedia

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    A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.

  7. List of Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle variants - Wikipedia

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    AR-15A2 HBAR (w/ factory installed .22 Long Rifle conversion kit) A2 Ribbed S-1 A2 Yes Yes 5.56 NATO 20 in. HBAR 1:7 No A2 R6601 Sporter Match HBAR A2 Ribbed S-1 A2 Yes Yes 5.56 NATO 20 in. HBAR 1:7 No A2 R6601DH Sporter Match Delta HBAR (bundled w/ Tasco 3–9x scope and cheekpiece) A2 Ribbed S-1 A2 Yes Yes 5.56 NATO 20 in. HBAR 1:7 No A2 R6700

  8. Long rifle - Wikipedia

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    From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent ...

  9. Gun laws in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    To purchase a long gun (rifle or shotgun) in Ohio, a person must be at least 18 years of age, with some restrictions still remaining.To be able to qualify to purchase a handgun (pistol or revolver) in Ohio, a person must be at least 21 years of age. [3]