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Antique firearms can be divided into two basic types: muzzle-loading and cartridge firing. Muzzleloading antique firearms are not generally owned with the intent of firing them (although original muzzleloaders can be safely fired, after having them thoroughly inspected), but instead are usually owned as display pieces or for their historic value.
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same load as the highest muzzle velocity, since the bullet weights can differ between loads).
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.
5 million milled AK type 3, 10 million AKM, [8] 5 million AK-74 [9] 15-20 million Chinese Type 56 [10] 3 million Yugoslav Zastava M70, 2 million East German Mpi. Several million Egyptian Maadi. Mauser Gewehr 98 (and similar) Bolt-action rifle German Empire: 20,000,000 [11] 102,000,000 [12] [11] Mosin–Nagant Russian Empire: 37,000,000 [13] M16 ...
Gazette des armes is a French monthly magazine focusing primarily on antique firearms collecting. It was founded in 1972 by Jean-Jaques Bugnes, president of the Union Francaise des amateurs d'Armes. The quality of its articles makes Gazettes des Armes the reference for all collectors [citation needed]. Eleven issues are published each year plus ...
Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.31 ball/conical bullet.28 ball/conical bullet 5 United States: c. 1855–1870 Colt Model 1862 Pocket Police: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.31 ball/conical bullet 5-6 United States: c. 1847–1873 Colt Model 1871-72 Open Top: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.44 Henry: 6
Designed and popularized by the Austrian watchmaker Franz Pfannl.The 4.25 mm Liliput pistol is one of the smallest semiautomatic handguns ever made (the Kolibri is generally considered the smallest).
Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company The National Arms Company was a Brooklyn, New York –based manufacturer of firearms that flourished for a decade in the mid-19th century, around the time of the American Civil War .