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...d for the drag behaviour of a specific projectile. Some ballistic software designers, who based their programs on the Siacci/Mayevski G1 model, give the user th ... There seems to be no good formula for the effective ranges of the various firearms.</ref> of all small arms and especially high-powered [[sniper rifle]]s depe

... The corps was manned by volunteer officers and soldiers from a variety of British regiments and militias, and would soon be renamed and normalized into the a By [[1810]], four British battalions, two each of the 95th and 60th Regiments, and several companies

...including one in [[bullpup]] configuration, chambered for their new [[.280 British]] calibre intermediate cartridge. After evaluating the single bullpup proto ...presented the redesigned FN rifle and the British [[EM-2]], both in [[.280 British]] calibre, to the [[United States]] for comparison testing against the favo

...[[East Germany|East]] and [[West Germany]] and H&K was acquired in 1991 by British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance division (known today as BAE Systems). ...id=knkWAAAAEBAJ&dq=Manfred+GuhringLoading lever assembly for hand-operated firearms]", US 5821445, issued 1996-10-13</ref>

|nationality = American, later British ... an inventor born in the [[U.S.]] who emigrated to [[England]] and adopted British citizenship, best known as the inventor of the [[Maxim Gun]], the first por

The Lee Model 1879 rifle was his first successful [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]]-fed rifle, which was adopted by [[China]] and the US Navy, and ...ortion of the Model 1879 that earned Lee his place in the pantheon of arms designers. Lee designed the first practical detachable box magazine - an item that w

A distinctive feature of the Krag-Jørgensen action was its [[magazine (firearms)]]. While many other rifles of its era used an integral box magazine, the m The 1880s were an interesting period in the development of modern firearms. During this decade [[smokeless powder]] came into general use, and the cal

...|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

...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 ...MV of 920 ft/s (280 m/s); the British [[Bren]] light machine gun in [[.303 British]] reached 2,440 ft/s (740 m/s); the M1 Garand firing .30-'06 had an MV of 2

}}'''[[Robert Adams]]''' (1809–1880) was a 19th-century [[United Kingdom|British]] [[gunsmith]] who patented the first successful [[trigger|double-action]] ...rers [[George & John Deane]]. On [[August 22]], [[1851]], he was granted a British patent for a new revolver design.

...tory in the Borough of Enfield, now part of north London, which produced [[British military rifles]], [[muskets]] and swords from 1816. It closed in 1988, but ...tories]] to become part of [[Royal Ordnance]] Plc; and was later bought by British Aerospace (BAe). They closed the site in 1988.<ref name=pam/>

... historian James E. Serven as "events which shaped the destiny of American Firearms." ...t is thought that it was this incident that brought the manufacture of his firearms to Paterson, New Jersey. Shortly after his arrival home he rushed to Washin

...ng in Indianapolis, Indiana. There he devoted himself to the perfection of firearms. In [[1861]], the same year the war started, he invented the [[Gatling gun] ...rs, particularly in [[England]] where the Gatling gun was adopted early. A British newspaper of the period commented: "The general use of the formidable weapo

...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

...itish]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]]s used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout [[World War II]] and the Korean War. The 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 [[

|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

...who had earlier emigrated from Germany and settled in Kibbutz Yagur in the British Mandate of Palestine, where he changed his name to Uziel Gal. ... and specialized in weapons maintenance. In [[1943]] he was arrested by [[British]] forces (who ruled Israel until 1948) for illegally carrying a gun and sen

...Tranter, c. 1885]]'''William Tranter''' (1816-1890) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] gunmaker and gun designer famous for inventing the [[Tranter Revolver]]. ...War, the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] States began buying British arms in quantity and Tranter's high-quality weapons were much esteemed. Th

During the late 1950s, [[ArmaLite]] and other U.S. [[firearm]] designers started their individual Small Caliber/High Velocity (SCHV) assault rifle e ...termediate" round since 1945 and were on the point of introducing a [[.280 British|.280 inch (7 mm) round]] when the selection of the 7.62 mm round was made.

He submitted a rifle to the competition organised by the British government for a replacement to their existing [[Snider-Enfield]] service w [[Category:British firearms designers]]