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...9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] handgun to utilize a staggered-column [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]] with a single feed point allowing a total of thirteen rounds to [[Category:Belgian firearms designers]]

...-loading]], (with exceptions) [[selective fire]] [[rifle]] produced by the Belgian armaments manufacturer [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal]] (FN) during the Co ...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

...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"| Ak 5 is the Swedish version of [[Belgium| Belgian]] [[FN FNC]]. It is the main [[service rifle]] of the Swedish Armed Forces

...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 ...ice during the 1960s, when the M1 carbine would be replaced by the 5.56 mm firearms — the M16 and its carbine variants, such as the [[Colt Commando|XM177/CAR

... the firearms designers of the day. Soon there was a host of new automatic firearms that used this concept, such as the [[Borchardt pistol]], the [[Cei-Rigotti The Belgian name ''Mitrailleuse d'Appui General'', or [[General purpose machine gun|Gen

...il operation. See [[Gas-Operated]] article for details on gas operation of firearms. A semi-automatic pistol will fire only one shot per trigger pull, in contr ...vilians except (in the US) for those civilians holding a Class III Federal firearms license. The Mauser Model 712 "Schnellfeuer" (German for "rapid fire"), a l

During the late 1950s, [[ArmaLite]] and other U.S. [[firearm]] designers started their individual Small Caliber/High Velocity (SCHV) assault rifle e ...5.56 mm loading (M193 Ball) as used by the U.S. at that time. Instead, the Belgian [[Fabrique Nationale|FN]] SS109 loading was chosen for standardization. The

...anslation “assault rifle” gradually became the common term for similar firearms sharing the same technical definition as the name giver StG 44. In a strict ...ican Civil War, further developments such as the adaptation of [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine-fed]] [[rifle]]s, rapid fire [[machine gun]]s and high explosive