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...anufacturing Company|Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company]] in the early 1900s. The Model 1902 was not a new design, but rather an incremental impro ...plated models are encountered, as well as various custom finishes. On some early production Model 1902s the [[trigger]], pins, and grip screws were set off

|manufacturer=Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut ...[9x19mm Parabellum]] and it is now considered obsolete as there are no new firearms currently being chambered in .38 ACP. While using a locked breech, the pist

...d for the U.S. government service revolver trials of 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, today [[Colt's Manufacturing Company]], and adopted ...ned for the US government service revolver trials of 1873 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company and adopted as the standard military service revolver

...Third Series, have an S suffix to the serial number. Challengers, and some early Huntsmans and Targetsmans, have a -C suffix. All Third Series guns have the * [[List of firearms]]

...[William E. Fairbairn]] and later [[Rex Applegate]] enumerated many of the early combat pistol practices developed during their training of Office of Strate ...t time, US military personnel were prohibited by Italian law from carrying firearms within their areas of accommodation, which were within the local community

... have a long history in Europe, dating back to the early days of cartridge firearms, and they are most popular in [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]] and [[Austria]]. ...p://hoferwaffen.com/hofer_52.php?lang=en Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen], maker of firearms from single barrel to fünfling.</ref>

...e Cooey 39s carries a maker's [[serial number]]. This is not true. While early production units were in fact serial number free, those manufactured from 1 * [[Table of Cooey firearms]]

...is a competitive shooting sport that originated in California, USA, in the early 1980s. Cowboy Action Shooting is now practiced world wide with several san ==Firearms==

|Provisions of the [[Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975]] infringe an individual's [[right to bear ...ington, D.C.), also striking down the portion of the law that requires all firearms including [[rifle]]s and [[shotgun]]s be kept "unloaded and disassembled or

...ks would contain no such catch.<ref>Blackmore, Howard L. British Military Firearms, 1650-1850. Greenhill Pr, 1994.</ref> [[Category:Early firearms]]

...s a more practical design in the days of [[muzzle-loading]] [[firearm]]s. Early [[cartridge]] shotguns also used the SxS action, because they kept the expo The early doubles used two triggers, one for each barrel. These were located front t

...eenth century, the double rifle, as it is understood today, first appeared early in the 19th century, due to sportsmen's need for a rifle capable of firing ...pe buffalo, lion and leopard. The double rifle excels over other repeating firearms in its ability to allow the shooter to make a split-second, secondary, foll

...-cases.html?print=1&tmpl=component "Burlew fires bull’s-eye in defending firearms violation cases."] ''Canadian Lawyer'' March 2011.</ref> who specializes in ...rated to Canada and settled in the province of Ontario while he was in his early teens.

== Early use == As Europeans made inroads into Africa in the early 1800s, guns were developed to handle the very large game encountered. This

...uri but was raised in Montana, Idaho, and eastern Oregon. In the 1930s and early 1940s, he had a ranch on the Salmon River near Salmon, Idaho. In the late 1 ...g full advantage of the greater strength of the revolvers available in the early 1900s compared to those of the late 1800s. The .357 Magnum first became av

==Early life== ...ellor326/> Australia had no experience in the development of mass-produced firearms and relied entirely on designs sourced from the United Kingdom for the manu

In the field of [[firearms]], an '''expanding bullet''' is a [[bullet]] designed to expand on impact. .... Originally, dum-dum referred to a new type of ammunition produced in the early 1890s at the arsenal in Dum Dum near Calcutta, [[India]].

...cate a rifle or ammunition capable of higher than typical velocities. The early express cartridges used a heavy charge of [[black powder]] to propel a ligh ... ball large and heavy enough to provide a quick kill on large game. These early smoothbore guns were typically measured by [[gauge (bore diameter)|gauge]],

... most commonly serves as the point from which the extractor works. Not all firearms have extractors. In bolt action, lever-action, pump action, and semi- or fully-automatic firearms, extractors typically work in conjunction with ejectors to remove a fired,

|caption= Both early (top) and late-war (bottom) variants of the FG 42. |variants= Early model (original Rheinmetall- Borsig design), late model (Krieghoff revision