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The AR-15's "duckbill" flash suppressor had three tines or prongs and was designed to preserve the shooter's night vision by disrupting the flash. Early AR-15's had a 25-round magazine. Later model AR-15s used a 20-round waffle-patterned magazine that was meant to be a lightweight, disposable item.
The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine-fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15, an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.
[2] [22] In 2009, the term "modern sporting rifle" was coined by the National Shooting Sports Foundation for its survey that year as a marketing term used by the firearms industry to describe modular semi-automatic rifles including AR-15s. [23] [4] [24] [12] Today, nearly every major firearm manufacturer produces its own generic AR-15–style ...
A Bushmaster XM-15 was used in the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. [11] Just before the second anniversary of the massacre, nine families of the 26 victims of the shooting filed a class action lawsuit in Connecticut against Bushmaster, Remington Arms and others, [ 12 ] seeking "unspecified" damages for the defendants ...
Type 2 Duckbill 605B Model 605B: A1 Triangular S-F-1-3 A1 No No .223 REM 15 in. A1 1:12 No Type 2 Duckbill 606 CAR-15 Heavy Assault Rifle M1: A1 Triangular S-1-F A1 No No .223 REM 20 in. HBAR 1:12 Yes Type 2 Duckbill 606A CAR-15 Heavy Assault Rifle M1: A1 Triangular S-1-F A1 Yes No .223 REM 20 in. HBAR 1:12 Yes Type 2 Duckbill 606B
Law enforcement agencies control about 23 million (about 2 percent) of the global total of small arms. [2] Estimates by Oxfam in 2012 put the production of firearm cartridges at 12 billion per year, [4] or approximately 32.9 million a day. [a] Estimates of production of the Kalashnikov AK-47 and derivative weapons may be exaggerated.
Light machine gun United Kingdom: One used intensively by the IRA in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1972, [75] [76] captured by British Army in February 1977. [77] Another Lewis gun was found in an IRA arms dump outside Kildare in January 1990. [78] [79] Besa machine gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Medium machine gun United Kingdom
Warmachine is a tabletop steampunk [1] wargame originally produced by Privateer Press but currently under the ownership of Steamforged Games.. The game is played with white metal, plastic, and resin miniatures representing military characters from the Iron Kingdoms setting.