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...938, Owen had constructed a prototype which used .22 inch (5.6 mm) calibre ammunition.<ref name=Wardell549>Wardell, 2000, pp. 549 – 550</ref> The following yea ...oduced versions utilising .32 inch (8.1 mm) and .45 inch (11.4 mm) rimless ammunition. Trials with these prototypes were such that a formal approach was made to

...possibly the classic post-war [[battle rifle]]. Formally introduced by its designers Dieudonne Saive and Ernest Vervier in 1951, and produced two years later, i ...small-arms industry produces some basically unchanged variants, as well as ammunition. By modern standards, one disadvantage of the FAL is the amount of work whi

In the American Civil War, both sides used crude hand grenades equipped with a plunger that ...h/zastava.htm]. That grenade was popular under name of "Vasićka" (by it's designers name), or "Kragujevka" (by it's place of manufacture, the military-technica

...exits the [[gun barrel]]. The study of internal ballistics is important to designers and users of firearms of all types, from small-bore Olympic [[rifle]]s and ...which used it, called the "caplock". The caplock appeared just before the American Civil War, and was quickly adopted by both sides as it was even simpler and

|muzzle_velocity= 580 m/s (1900 ft/s) to 870 m/s (2854 ft/s) depending on ammunition ... Krags]]:''<br/>Rifle 1889<br/>Carbine 1889<br/>Sniper Rifle 1928<br/>''[[#American Krag-Jørgensen rifles|US Krags]]:''<br/>M1892 Rifle<br/>M1892 Carbine<br/>

...e between those of [[handgun]] and more traditional high-powered [[rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended mo | colspan="5"| In the 1990s, Izhmash designers developed the unified complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for d

...by opening the top cover, lifting the extractor, inserting the new belt of ammunition into the gun's feed tray, then lowering the extractor over the first round ...on, spare parts, and sometimes more ammunition and when in action, fed the ammunition belts into the gun to ensure smooth entry of each round in the belt, decrea

...940. This led to a competition in 1941 by major U.S. firearm companies and designers. [[Winchester Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]] at first did not submit a ... folding-stock M1A1. The carbine's exclusive use of non-corrosive primered ammunition was found to be a godsend by troops and ordnance personnel serving in the P

...le by using recoil to power automatic loading was not lost on the firearms designers of the day. Soon there was a host of new automatic firearms that used this ...ehr 08|MG 08]] and the [[Vickers machine gun|Vickers gun]], as well as the American [[M1917 Browning machine gun|Browning Model 1917 machine gun]]) were all su

... or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition." 26 U.S.C. sec. 5845(e).''</blockquote> ... outline of the gun, are AOW's. This would affect, for example, the North American Arms mini-revolver and the wallet holster NAA used to sell for the gun, as

...istol functions by using the energy from the recoil of a single round of [[ammunition]] to extract and eject a fired cartridge from the pistol's chamber and load ...s of semi-automatic pistols rely on a removable magazine for supplying new ammunition to reload the chamber to be able to fire the gun again. The removable magaz

STEN is an acronym, cited as derived from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald '''S'''hepherd and Harold '''T'''urpin, and '''EN''' for [[ ...ld from the [[United States]], but this did not begin to meet demand. The American entry into the war at the end of 1941 placed an even bigger demand on the f

The '''Thompson submachine gun''' is an [[United States|American]] [[submachine gun]] that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It wa ...poration]] in 1916 for the purpose of developing his weapon. The principal designers were Theodore H. Eickhoff, Oscar V. Payne, and George E. Goll. By late 1917

With the onset of the American Civil War, the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] States began b ...er in .442 in (11.2 mm) caliber. Tranter began manufacturing [[Centerfire ammunition|center fire]] revolvers in 1868.

...fire with the reduced recoil and reduced blast. It seemed that the British designers had accomplished their goals, and proceeded to introduce the cartridge to t ...e, the British adopted the EM-2 and the .280/30 as their primary rifle and ammunition in 1951 with the .280/30 being re-designated as the "7 mm MK1Z". However, t

...or Marketing]] previously tasked by [[Milkor (Pty) Ltd]] the South African designers of the [[Milkor MGL]] - developed a new "Extended Range Low Pressure" (ERLP ... left, allowing left and right-handed shooters to load it quickly with any ammunition they want. The HK [[AG36]] launcher has a similar setup where the barrel tu

...5.45×39mm cartridge was developed in the early 1970s by a group of Soviet designers and engineers under the direction of M. Sabelnikov. Further group members w ...uracy.<ref>[http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/Assault.htm Assault Rifles and Their Ammunition: History and Prospects by Anthony G. Williams]</ref>

...gies intermediate between those typical of [[pistol]] and [[battle rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended mo *''' Ammunition is supplied from a large capacity detachable box magazine. '''

...rce competition between private industry technicians or free lance weapons designers and technicians of state owned arsenals like [[MAC_Manufacture_d%27Armes_de ... )contains a detailed technical chapter describing the Lebel rifle and its ammunition. This volume primarily describes all French semi-automatic rifles since 189

...Spencer''' (1833 &ndash; 1922), born June 20, 1833, was an [[United States|American]] inventor, from Manchester, Connecticut, who invented the [[Spencer repeat ...ully automatic turret lathe,<ref>Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), ''English and American Tool Builders'', New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press, LCCN 1