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...reechblock''. To lock, it drops down into a solid shoulder of metal in the heavy [[receiver]] like the [[bolts]] of the Russian [[SKS]] [[carbine]] and Fren ...-barrel configurations, the heavy barrel intended for automatic fire. Most heavy barreled FALs are equipped with [[bipod]]s, although some light barrel mode

|type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ...eavy infantry '''Model 60-20''' machine gun, the '''Model 60-40''' coaxial machine gun for armoured fighting vehicles and the '''Model 60-30''' aircraft varia

...iaries , FN HERSTAL, active in the Defense and Law Enforcement fields, and Browning / U.S. Repeating Arms Co., specializing in hunting /shooting marksmanship a ...hip with the famous American firearms designer, [[John Browning|John Moses Browning]].

...round with a single manipulation of the [[trigger|firing device]] to be a "machine gun" for regulatory purposes. Other terms, including "firearm" itself, hav For handguns and long guns, the [[projectile]] is a [[bullet]], or in historical [[cannons]], a [[cann

... [[tripod]], or mounted on a vehicle, as they are usually too powerful and heavy to be fired effectively on foot from an unsupported standing position or on ... used as a GPMG traces back to World War I, where aircooled medium machine guns were used in many different roles, typically with larger magazines on aircr

...|thumb|A [[Browning Arms Company|Browning]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9x19mm]] [[Browning Hi-Power|Hi-Power]] ]] ...long gun]]s such as [[rifle]]s and [[shotgun]]s, mounted weapons such as [[machine gun]]s and [[autocannon]]s, and larger weapons such as [[artillery]].

...ans firing a [[Ckm wz.30]] (a [[Poland|Polish]]-made clone of the American Browning M1917) in 1944.]] [[Image:M2 machine gun.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[M2 Browning machine gun]] with a [[tripod]] weighs 58 kg (128 lb).]]

*[[.50 BMG]] primers, used for the .50 Browning Machine Gun cartridge and [[wildcat cartridge|derivatives]] ...magnum pistols and light [[rifle]] rounds, and slow powders for large-bore heavy rifle rounds.<ref>[http://www.hodgdon.com/data/general/burnratechart.php Po

...], one of the most popular modern [[5.56x45mm NATO|5.56 mm]] light machine guns among NATO countries.]] [[Image:Machine gun HK MG43 (MG4).jpg|right|thumb|[[MG4]] of the German Army.]]

This is an extensive list of [[small arms]] — [[pistol]], [[machine gun]], [[grenade launcher]], [[anti-tank rifle]] — that includes variants *[[Accu-Tek AT32]] (US - Pistol - 7.65 x 17 mm Browning/.32 ACP)

..., or even boxes. There are also high caliber and standard caliber machine guns. They are often used to eliminiate large spans of enemies, or to destroy a ===Light machine guns/squad automatic weapons===

...t. By contrast, soldiers armed with rapid fire weapons (such as submachine guns) were much more likely to have fired their weapons in battle. These conclus ... (precursor to the [[M14 rifle|M14]]) would increase the rate of fire, its heavy 7.62 mm NATO cartridge made carrying significant quantities of ammunition d

...ilar to that of a lever action rifle. The earliest prototype developed by Browning in early 1889 was a .44 caliber [[black powder]] cartridge rifle, weighing ...ipod mount with seat for the gunner, added another 56 pounds. Despite the heavy barrel, the closed bolt mechanism would cook off shots if a round was left

|name= Browning Model 1917 |caption= Browning Model 1917A1 water cooled machine gun

|name= Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918 |caption= Browning M1918A2

|name= Gun, Machine, Caliber .30, Browning, M1919A4 |caption= Browning M1919

...[M1917 Browning machine gun|M1917]]/[[M1919 Browning machine gun|M1919]] [[machine gun]]s. This left the Army without the lighter, handier rifle it had wanted ...]s and [[revolver]]s to be insufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] were more than sufficientl

|type= [[Light machine gun]] / [[Squad automatic weapon]] ...ignated automatic rifleman. The gun provides the heavy volume of fire of a machine gun with accuracy approaching that of a rifle.

|name= Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2, HB |image= Machine gun M2 1.jpg

|name= Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M60 |caption= M60 machine gun