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An Armalite rifle (AR) is one of a series of rifles the ArmaLite company made or, more generally, a rifle based on one of its designs, such as the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle. Eugene Stoner , Jacques Michault, Melvin Johnson , Robert Fremont, and Jim Sullivan are some of the designers credited with their development. [ 1 ]
Over 50,000 Model 1868 rifles were manufactured, chambered for the .50-70 450 cartridge. This model served as the basis for the definitive Springfield Model 1873 series of rifles in .45-70-405 caliber, which was adopted in 1873 as the standard military longarm of the United States armed forces for the next 20 years.
The A22 Magnum is a semi-automatic rimfire rifle with a design similar to the A17, but using .22 WMR ammunition. It comes with a 10-round rotary magazine, a steel receiver, and Savage's user-adjustable AccuTrigger for changing the trigger pull weight. [29] This rifle also uses the unique Savage delayed blowback system.
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.
Berdan rifle: 10.75×58 mmR 7.62×54mmR: 1870 Russian Empire: Berthier rifle: 8mm Lebel 7.5x54mm French: 1890s France: BMS Cam rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: 1980 United Kingdom: Bor: 7.62x51mm NATO: 2006 Poland: Browning A-Bolt.223 Remington.22 Hornet.375 H&H Magnum. 1984 United States/ Japan: Carcano: 6.5×50mm Arisaka 6.5×52mm Carcano 6.5×54mm ...
The Unique Alpine TPG-1 [where "TPG" stands for German: Taktisches Präzisionsgewehr ("Tactical Precision Rifle")] [1] is a modular, multi-caliber, tactical applications precision sniper rifle made in Bavaria / Federal Republic of Germany. [2] [3] This rifle is part of the equipment of the Hungarian police.
The Belgians designated the rifle as the ABL SAFN-49, ABL is an acronym for the Belgian Army in both French and Dutch; "AB" for the French "Armée Belge" and "BL" for the Dutch "Belgisch Leger". The contracts for the SAFN 1949 rifle made by FN for Belgium totaled 87,777 rifles total, composing almost half of all FN-49 rifles ever produced. [7]
The rifle is compatible with Desert Tech caliber conversion kits that allow the rifle to change caliber. [8] [2] This provides a unique feature in which the rifle chassis can accept both intermediate cartridges and full-powered rifle cartridges on the same serial number platform (such as 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO magazines).