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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.
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 rifles and any other variants.
List of artillery; List of firearms. List of assault rifles; List of battle rifles; List of blow forward firearms; List of bolt-action rifles; List of bullpup firearms; List of carbines; List of delayed blowback firearms; List of grenade launchers; List of machine guns; List of multiple-barrel firearms; List of pistols; List of recoilless ...
List of API blowback firearms; List of assault rifles; B. List of battle rifles; List of blow-forward firearms; List of bolt-action rifles; List of bullpup firearms; C.
Battle rifle Japan: 230,000 [170] Lewis gun: Light machine gun United Kingdom: 202,050 Colt Model 1860 Army: Revolver United States: 200,500 [52] MAB Model D pistol: Semi-automatic pistol France: 200,000+ Škorpion vz. 61: Submachine gun Czechoslovakia: 200,000 FM 24/29 light machine gun: Light machine gun France: 190,400 Rast & Gasser M1898 ...
Select-fire rifles with fixed magazines like the Cei-Rigotti are not assault rifles; they do not have detachable box magazines. Several of the rifles on the below list have non-assault rifle variants. Because they lack the selective fire capability as they only fire semi-automatic even though it fulfills the other requirements of the definition ...
Cartridges of the World is a comprehensive guide to firearm cartridges. The reference series is written by Frank C. Barnes . The latest version of the book is its 17th edition, published in 2022, and edited by W. Todd Woodard.
Pistol and rifle cartridges (15 C, 580 P) Rebated rim cartridges (3 C, 29 P) Rimmed cartridges (117 P) Caseless firearms (1 C, 25 P) ... Pages in category "Firearms"