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...ally [[break open]] designs. Unlike double barrelled shotguns and double rifles, where single selective or double triggers are used to allow rapid firing o ...e variety of game could be encountered. A combination such as the .450-577 British service cartridge and a 12 gauge shotgun was common.

...monly used throughout Europe in the 1600's, it gained popular favor in the British and Dutch military. .... Later flintlocks would contain no such catch.<ref>Blackmore, Howard L. British Military Firearms, 1650-1850. Greenhill Pr, 1994.</ref>

...[Baker rifle|design]] was chosen and he was given an initial order for 800 rifles.

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...cities and, typically, higher [[trajectories]]. Hand-held firearms, like [[rifles]], [[carbines]], [[pistols]] and other small firearms are rarely called "gu ...secondary method of attack used in close combat. For example, arms such as rifles, muskets, and occasionally [[submachine gun]]s can have [[bayonet]]s affixe

[[Image:Musee-historique-lausanne-img 0086.jpg|thumb|Flintlock of an 18th Century hunting rifle, with piece of flint missing.]] [[Image:FlintlockFiring.jpg|thumb|A flintlock musket being fired]]

...ht|A modern [[black powder substitute]] for [[muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] rifles in FFG size]]'''Gunpowder''' (also called '''black powder''') is a pyrotech ...rifles), FFFg (pistols), and FFFFg (smallbore, short pistols and priming [[flintlock]]s). In the [[United Kingdom]], the gunpowder grains are categorised by mes

}}'''Joseph Manton''' (1766-1835) was a much celebrated British gunsmith who was to revolutionise sport shooting, vastly improve the qualit == Shotguns and rifles ==

...Megapixie.jpg|thumb|right|A modern image of an 1895 tripod-mounted, [[.303 British|.303]] caliber Maxim machine gun. The original Maxim of the 1880s was the f ... intended for use in [[side arm]]s (chiefly [[semi-automatic pistol]]s) or rifles; the difference between machine guns and autocannons is based on [[caliber]

...f opinion, one commonly held opinion being that the term was originated by British troops in the Peninsular War ascribing the term to the particular style of ...] possible. It proved to be both the precursor and companion to the true [[flintlock]]. Two major variants of the miquelet were produced. The Spanish lock wher

...ity of firing and was awarded Halltorps estate by the king of Sweden. The flintlock (which succeeded the similar but more complicated [[snaphance]]) was a majo ...ops until they could do it by instinct and feel. The main advantage of the British Redcoat was that he trained at this procedure almost every day using live a

The recent notices sent to owners of registered [[Norinco Type 97]] [[rifles]] and [[High Standard Model 10B]] Police [[Shotguns]], ordering them to sur # Non-firearm. This category includes working [[flintlock]] rifles, [[muskets]], shotguns, and miniature [[cannon]] as well as [[antique firea

...with strict dietary restrictions. The Sepoy soldiers in the employ of the British in [[India]], for example, were largely Hindu, who were forbidden to eat be ...the flint lock musket], video explaining the use of a paper cartridge in a flintlock musket</ref>

... [[wheellock]]. Flintlocks were prone to misfire in wet weather, and many flintlock firearms were later converted to the more reliable percussion system. ... were, and still are, made in small sizes for pistols and larger sizes for rifles and muskets.

...nd ammunition domestically, and is the largest US producer of shotguns and rifles. Remington does not produce handguns. Its products are distributed in over ...siness into rifle barrel production. Local residents often built their own rifles to save on costs, but purchased the barrel. Eliphalet's father sent him to

...le examples being various grenade launchers and riot guns, and even some [[rifles]]. ...ref>See main article, [[James Puckle]]</ref> [[Elisha Collier]] patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in [[1818]], and significant numbers were being produce

... rifle]] suitable for use in nearly all theatres and environments. Service rifles are also often selected for their upgradability (e.g. the addition of under ...e battlefield, with the muskets being phased out. Originally, these combat rifles were single-shot muzzleloading weapons, but as technology advanced through

For example, the contemporary [[Brown Bess]] [[musket]], in service with the British military from 1722 to 1838, 19 mm (.75 inch) smoothbore barrel, roughly the ...eloped earlier. The development of more accurate and deadlier long-range [[rifles]] minimized the usefulness of the shotgun on the open battlefields of Europ

...57 Mauser]], [[.303 British]], and [[7.62x54R]] made many smokeless powder rifles manufactured in the 1890s quite capable of accurate shooting at long distan *Buffalo rifles

..., although a socket bayonet was deemed a sidearm anyway, especially in the British army of 1775. ... to make them more compact in form and fold better onto the sides of their rifles (see [[Mosin Nagant]] model of 1944). It is said that self-inflicted wounds