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... Ernest Owen''' ([[15 May]] [[1915]] – [[1 April]] [[1949]]) was the Australian who developed the [[Owen Gun|Owen Submachine Gun]] which was used in [[Worl ...that the gun could be upgraded to a larger calibre, Owen was told that the Australian Army would not be interested. Submachine guns, such as the [[Thompson Mach

...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 ...Most military forces adopting the FAL eventually eliminated full-automatic firearms training in the light-barrel FAL.

...ventually replace the G3, therefore further development of H&K's series of firearms chambered for the [[5.56x45mm NATO]] cartridge had been halted. Heckler & K ...id=knkWAAAAEBAJ&dq=Manfred+GuhringLoading lever assembly for hand-operated firearms]", US 5821445, issued 1996-10-13</ref>

... would grow up to be one of the most famous [[gunsmiths]] and [[firearms]] designers in American history. His works for [[Browning Arms Company|his own company ...s ''[[Science in the Service of Politics]]'', outlining the foolishness of Australian gun control measures.

...ed States|American]] [[firearm]]s designer who developed many varieties of firearms, [[cartridges]], and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around ...rearms. His most significant contributions were in the area of autoloading firearms. He developed the autoloading pistol by inventing the [[pistol slide|slide]

...|Belt-fed]] weapons or rifles with very limited capacity fixed [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]]s are also generally not considered assault rifles. This list i | colspan="5"| In the 1990s, Izhmash designers developed the unified complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for d

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 [[ The credited designers were Major R. V. Shepherd, OBE, Inspector of Armaments in the Ministry of S

|used_by=U.S. military, FBI, Swedish Army, British Army, Canadian Army, Australian Army, National Revolutionary Army ...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

During the late 1950s, [[ArmaLite]] and other U.S. [[firearm]] designers started their individual Small Caliber/High Velocity (SCHV) assault rifle e ...ce of the bullet on target, especially the first-shot kill rate when using firearms that don't achieve the velocity to cause fragmentation.<ref name=woundingin

...wildcat cartridges are designed to be easily made by rechambering existing firearms, and fireforming the ammunition to decrease body taper and increase shoulde ...llege from 1946 to 1951, where he did much experimentation in the field of firearms.<ref>{{cite book |title=Handbook for Shooters & Reloaders |author=P. O. Ack