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The Remington 1911 R1 is a semi-automatic pistol modeled after the classic Colt 1911 which has served the US armed forces for over 100 years. Like the Colt 1911, the Remington 1911 is single action only, and has a grip safety and a manually operated thumb safety ; it also has a Colt Series 80 style firing pin safety .
In 2010, Remington introduced the fastest commercially available shotgun shell, Hypersonic Steel, with a patented wad technology that allows the shot to travel at 1,700 ft/s (520 m/s). After a 12-year absence from the handgun market, Remington announced the Remington 1911 R1 in 2010.
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A Remington Model 870 shotgun. Below is a list of firearms produced by the Remington Arms Company, [1] founded in 1816 as E. Remington and Sons. Following the breakup of Remington Outdoor Company in 2020, the Remington Firearms brand name operates under RemArms, LLC.
The Remington Rand Building at 315 Park Avenue South in New York City is a 20-floor skyscraper completed in 1911. [1] After 1955, Remington Rand had a long series of mergers and acquisitions that eventually resulted in the formation of Unisys. During World War II, Remington Rand produced M1911 pistols used by the United States Armed Forces.
A number of other variants of the R1 were built, the R1 HB, which had a heavy barrel and bipod, the R1 Sniper, which could be fitted with a scope and the R1 Para Carbine, which used a Single Point IR sight and had a shorter barrel. [56] R1 was standard issue in the SADF until the introduction of the R4 in the early 1980s. Still used by the ...
The 5 mm Remington Rimfire Magnum or 5 mm RFM [2] is a bottlenecked rimfire cartridge introduced by Remington Arms Company in 1969. Remington chambered it in a pair of bolt-action rifles, the Model 591 and Model 592 , but this ammunition never became very popular, and the rifles were discontinued in 1974. [ 3 ]
The .35 Remington (9.1 x 49 mm) is the only cartridge from Remington's lineup of medium-power rimless cartridges still in commercial production. Introduced in 1906, it was originally chambered for the Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle in 1908.