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'''Durs Egg''' (1748–1831) was a Swiss-born British [[gunsmith|gunmaker]], noted for his flintlock pistols and for his company' [[Category:British gunsmiths]]

* ''Boothroyd's Revised Directory of British Gunmakers,'' 1997, The Sportsman's Press, ISBN 0948253746 [[category:British firearms manufacturers]]

... 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

Gunsmiths may be employed in: ... general gunsmith (see Specializations section below). Alternatively, some gunsmiths learn many of the skills of the trade, but only apply them to a few weapon

...ouble-edged like a dagger. A rather shoddily made Pakistani bayonet with a British-style bowie blade also exists, and one of the Eickhorn KCB77 variants fits ...and a muzzle energy of 2215 J. The MC51 was allegedly manufactured for the British SAS and SBS, who required a compact but powerful weapon, for situations in

}}'''Joseph Manton''' (1766-1835) was a much celebrated British gunsmith who was to revolutionise sport shooting, vastly improve the qualit ...reer was to be spent at loggerheads with that bastion of adaptability, the British Army. Manton managed to interest the army in purchasing a larger a version

...ents from Arab attack as well as to carry out guerrilla operations against British Army forces in Palestine. ...r Karabiner 98k rifles and other surplus arms (namely the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Lee-Enfield]] bolt-action rifle, which was used on a large scale by the

[[Image:Khyberpassrifles.jpg|thumb|240px|Copies of British Martini and Snider firearms built in the Khyber region]][[Image:Webleypocke A '''Khyber Pass Copy''' is a firearm manufactured by cottage gunsmiths in the [[Khyber Pass]] region between [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]]. The

...xt several months, combined what they considered the best ideas from other gunsmiths with a number of their own ideas to design a distinct bolt action for their ...''' ||'''Japanese [[Type 38 Rifle]]''' || '''German [[Gewehr 98]]''' || '''British [[Lee-Enfield]]''' (data for late model)

|cartridge= [[.303 British|.303 Mk VII SAA Ball]] |used_by=United Kingdom & Colonies, British Commonwealth, Thailand

|wars= British colonial wars, Anglo-Zulu War, Boer War, World War I ...Cartidge, a later drawn brass .577/450 Martini-Henry cartridge, and a .303 British Mk VII SAA Ball cartridge.]]

...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 Sometime in the middle 1570’s, Madrid gunsmiths introduced a prototype miquelet lock, possibly based on a lock developed in

...roduction of the U.S. [[M1917 Enfield rifle]], a simplified version of the British Pattern 1914, and development of the [[Pedersen Device]]. '''Custom Plant''': Custom firearms are hand-crafted by professional [[gunsmiths]] at the Ilion, New York facility.

...r|Enfield]] and [[Webley revolver|Webley]] series of revolvers used by the British Armed Forces from the 1880s through the 1960s. [[Samuel Colt]] received a British patent for his revolver in [[1835]] and an American patent (number 138) on

...g this time, he also made arrangements to begin building guns using proper gunsmiths from Baltimore. In 1832, at the age of 18, Colt applied for a patent on his ...his first patent (number 6909), despite the reluctance from gun makers and British officials, because no fault could be found with the gun. He then traveled t

...ram Maxim]] introduced his recoil-powered [[machine gun]] in 1883, several gunsmiths set out to apply the same principles to handguns, including Maxim. Maxim's ...e First World War, their trusty revolvers were generally preferred by most British military. In the Soviet Union, the [[TT pistol]] replaced the [[Nagant M189

...tion_in_the_20th_Century|restrictions]] in that state on ownership of .303 British calibre firearm and the difficulties of obtaining commercial hunting arms a ...shooter handloading, but were often offered as proprietary cartridges from gunsmiths. Since having an existing barrel rebored and rechambered is less expensive

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]]

Gunsmiths like [[Joseph Manton]] invented more reliable forms of [[Lock|ignition]], l ...ted the first gun with primer locks, replacing the iconic "[[Brown Bess]]" British Land Pattern Musket. Instead of a complex "bottle" the new muskets used a [