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... The earliest shotguns specifically designed for combat were the '''trench guns''' or '''trench shotguns''' issued in World War I. While limited in range, ...e Texas Revolution, and buck and ball loads were used by both sides of the American Civil War, often by cavalry units.<ref>See main article, [[shotgun]].</ref>

...[[1 April]] [[1949]]) was the Australian who developed the [[Owen Gun|Owen Submachine Gun]] which was used in [[World War II]], the Korean War and the Vietnam Wa ...teer him towards less dangerous pursuits, the young Owen was obsessed with guns; with making, modifying, and firing them. At the age of eight he began his

...ly [[pistol]]s and [[hand grenade]]s on them during airborne raids, with [[submachine gun]]s, [[rifle]]s and crew-served weapons stored separately in containers ...l shoulder-fired automatic rifle that would replace the bolt-action rifle, submachine gun, and light machine gun in the air assault role.<ref name="Senich"/> The

...safety system and trigger mechanism were adopted from the [[FN P90|P90]] [[submachine gun]]; the selector toggle is a rotating disc located below the trigger. Th ...ly a shorter F2000 military barrel with an extended flash hider.<ref name="Guns Lot"/>

...War. Many Australian soldiers preferred the larger calibre weapon over the American [[M16 rifle|M16]] because they felt they could trust the NATO 7.62 round to After evaluating both the Spanish [[CETME]] and American Armalite [[AR-10]], the Austrian Army adopted a variant of the FAL under th

...er Repeating Arms Company|Winchester]]) and [[Browning Arms Company]] (an American gun company founded by [[John Browning|John Moses Browning]]'s family). Tog In 1898 the company entered into a long lasting relationship with the famous American firearms designer, [[John Browning|John Moses Browning]].

... (e.g., Colt [[AR-15]], [[H&K G36E]], [[TEC-9]], all [[AK-47]]s, and [[Uzi submachine gun|Uzi]]s) and other semi-automatic firearms because they possess a minimu ...ecause "It was drying up supply and driving up prices. The number of those guns used in crimes dropped because they were less available."<ref name=dud>[htt

...as an [[automatic rifle]]. However, many regulatory agencies, such as the American [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|US BATFE]], consider For handguns and long guns, the [[projectile]] is a [[bullet]], or in historical [[cannons]], a [[cann

* '''ANSI:''' American National Standards Institute. ...o death!"'' 2) ''noun:'' one who bubba's his (they're almost always male) guns.

...led budgetary discussions. The new law, which would allow civilians to own guns, sparked heated scenes in the East Timorese parliament between the parliame ...oting for work purposes, D - long guns for hunting, E - sporting guns, F - guns collecting )

...455. (May 1981)</ref><ref name="CNNpoll">[http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/16/guns.poll/ Majority in U.S. poll support gun ownership rights] - CNN.com</ref> w ... has never ruled against the constitutionality of reasonable regulation of guns and the prohibition of private possession of certain types of weapons.

...ake a technical distinction that views pistols as a subset of handguns. In American usage, the term "pistol" refers to a handgun whose chamber is integral with * From the city of Pistoia, Italy, where hand-held guns (designed to be fired from horseback) were first produced in the 1540s.<ref

...ous series of small [[firearm]]s, notably the [[Heckler & Koch MP5|MP5]] [[submachine gun]], [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3]] and more modern [[Heckler & Koch G36|G36]] ...[Glock]] was the first firearms manufacturer to use polymers in their hand guns, however it was Heckler & Koch who actually claimed that title when they re

|type= [[Submachine gun]] }}The '''MP5''' is a [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]] of [[Germany|German]] design, developed in the 1960s by a team of eng

...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 Berdan primers are named after their American inventor, [[Hiram Berdan]] of New York who invented his first variation of

...g the war, they also produced [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]] pistols and [[M3 submachine gun|M3 Grease Gun]]s. ...nut pin was furnished only on guns built prior to [[1955]]. On later-built guns having no pin, simply rotate the magazine nut.)<br>The barrel is joined to

.... Ithaca also produced the [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]] pistol and the [[M3 submachine gun|M3 Grease Gun]] for the United States military during [[World War II]]. ... its assets sold at auction on November 29, 2005 to the Marshals of Ithaca Guns, USA LLC. Finally, David Dlubak bought the current Ithaca Gun Company and a

...g with 5 round [[stripper clip]]s. While the Allies (both Soviet and Anglo-American) developed and moved towards standardization of semi-automatic rifles, the ...an the pistol cartridges of submachine guns, but that could be used like a submachine gun in close-quarters and urban fighting. Production of the StG44 was never

==Machine guns== ==Submachine guns==

...''': .45ACP calibre pistol of Browning design, standard service pistol of American forces until recent replacement by the Beretta 92FS (M9) in the late 1980s, == Submachine Guns ==