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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.
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber. [1]
Battle rifles are full-length, semi-automatic or select fire rifles that are chambered for a full-power rifle cartridge, [1] and have been adopted by a nation's military. The difference between a battle rifle and a designated marksman rifle is often only one of terminology with modifications to the trigger and accuracy enhancements; many of the weapons below are currently still in use and have ...
The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
Wynncraft received generally positive reviews. Writing for Kotaku Australia, Luke Plunkett praised Wynncraft's map and called the server "a full and proper MMO". [8] Carl Velasco of Tech Times said that the server is "nuts" and "a stunning example of what can be created using Minecraft 's own sandbox engine". [3]
First logo used from 2010 to 2017. The 2b2t Minecraft server was founded in December 2010; it has run consistently without a reset since then. [6] [1] The founders are anonymous, [7] choosing to remain unknown or known only via usernames; the most prominent founder is commonly referred to as "Hausemaster".
Mineplex was a Minecraft minigame server created in 2013 by Gregory Bylos and Jarred van de Voort. [4] [5] In 2016, Mineplex had millions of unique players monthly. [6]At its peak, the server had around 20,000 concurrent players at any given time. [7]
The term "rifle" is sometimes used to describe larger rifled crew-served weapons firing explosive shells, for example, recoilless rifles and naval rifles. [ citation needed ] In many works of fiction "rifle" refers to any weapon that has a stock and is shouldered before firing, even if the weapon is not rifled or does not fire solid projectiles ...