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Taken on October 21, 1967, during the March on the Pentagon by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the photo shows protester George Harris placing a carnation into the barrel of an M14 rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne). The photograph was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize.
Submachine guns. Bergmann MP 18-I; FIAT Mod.1915 (Captured) Rifles. Elefantengewehr; GRC Gewehr 88/05, Gewehr 88/14, Gewehr 91 and Karabiner 88; Mauser Gewehr 71 and 71/84; Mauser Gewehr 98 (Standard issue rifle) Mauser Karabiner 98a; Mauser M1887; Mauser M1915 and M1916 Selbstlader; Mondragón M1908; Mosin Nagant (Captured) Werder M1869; Ross ...
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.
M1918 Browning automatic rifle; Mark I trench knife; Maxim gun; Mk 1 grenade; Mk 2 grenade; MK3 grenade; R. Remington Model 10; S. Smith & Wesson Model 10; Stevens ...
This is a list of small arms whose manufacturer or name (in the case of no known or multiple manufacturers) starts with the letter A—including pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles, submachine guns, personal defense weapons, assault rifles, battle rifles, designated marksman rifles, carbines, machine guns, flamethrowers, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, anti-tank rifles, and any other ...
Two black soldiers of the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) manning a FN MAG General-purpose machine gun (GPMG) aboard a patrol boat on Lake Kariba, December 1976.. The Rhodesian Bush War, also referred to as the Rhodesian Civil War, Zimbabwe Independence War or Zimbabwean War of Liberation, as well as the Second Chimurenga, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that ...
While frequently used by the Imperial Japanese Navy, some rifles were given to Japan's puppet regimes in China and used by garrison units of the Imperial Japanese Army until the conclusion of hostilities. [7] [8] On the collector market in the United States, the Type I rifle is uncommon but not particularly popular among collectors.
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