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2. Parker-Hale - Wikipedia

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   [1] By 1914 the company's small manufacturing plant was well established and the Ministry of Munitions ordered training equipment from Parker-Hale. The "Parkerifling" process, coupled with the Hiscock-Parker magazine, enabled service rifles to be converted to .22 Long Rifle (.22 LR) for use as training rifles, and demand was such that the ...

3. Gun Quarter - Wikipedia

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   The Bull pub still stands today; in the mid-19th century it was where gun workers were paid their wages. The Gun Quarter is a district of the city of Birmingham, England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns.

4. Birmingham Small Arms Company - Wikipedia

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   Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome ...

5. Thomas Ketland - Wikipedia

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   A brass-barreled, flintlock pistol made by Ketland. Thomas Ketland & Co. was a firearms manufacturer founded in Birmingham, England c. 1760. Thomas Ketland Senior, was a highly successful Birmingham gun maker. He started his business around 1760 and expanded into the export market around 1790. He died in 1816.

6. Webley & Scott - Wikipedia

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   Webley & Scott 1909 Webley & Scott self-loading .455 inch pistol. Webley's first autoloading pistol was an experimental pistol in .45 calibre produced in 1903; mass production began in 1906 with the .32 ACP (7.65 mm) model. This pistol had a 3.5" barrel and an 8-round magazine. A .25 (6.35 mm) version had a 3-inch barrel and a 6-round magazine.

7. .400 Cor-Bon - Wikipedia

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   The .400 Corbon (10.2x22mm) is an automatic pistol cartridge developed by Cor-Bon in 1997. [2] It was created to mimic the ballistics of the 10 mm Auto cartridge in a .45 ACP form factor. It is essentially a .45 ACP case, necked down to .40 caliber with a 25-degree shoulder.

8. Walther PPS - Wikipedia

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   PPS pistols are delivered in a polymer pistol case containing; the pistol, 2 backstraps of different sizes, 2 magazine (small and medium), magazine loader, instruction manual, warranty papers, factory test target showing 5 shots fired at 15 m (16 yd) distance and an envelope with the case of the proof round fired during the proof test at the C ...

9. Hi-Point Firearms - Wikipedia

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   A Hi-Point JCP pistol. Hi-Point semi-automatic pistols are polymer framed handguns based on the blowback design. Different from other blowback design pistols such as the Walther PPK, the P-64, and the Astra 600 which use a heavy slide combined with a stiff recoil spring to hold the breech closed, these pistols use a heavier slide so they can use a softer recoil spring.