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...uve des Armes à Feu Portatives''' (Permanent International Commission for Firearms Testing - commonly abbreviated as C.I.P. or CIP) is an international organi To achieve this, the firearms are all professionally [[proof test|proofed]] at a C.I.P. accredited [[Proo

...y of Herstal, near Liège. The ''Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre'' ([[French]] for ''National Factory of Weapons of War'') was established in 1889 to ma ... company entered into a long lasting relationship with the famous American firearms designer, [[John Browning|John Moses Browning]].

...s use [[smokeless powder]], [[cordite]], or other propellants. Most modern firearms (with the notable exception of [[smoothbore]] [[shotgun]]s) have [[rifling| ...ny regulatory agencies, such as the American [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|US BATFE]], consider any firearm which dispenses more than o

...hat, due to its laws requiring universal licencing and registration of all firearms and owners, estimating [[Canadian]] [[firearm]] ownership rates would be re ...arly in rural areas, has made accurate estimation of the actual numbers of firearms and their owners in Canada a nearly insurmountable task.

...volumes of hot solids and gases which can be used as a [[propellant]] in [[firearms]] and fireworks. ...s that approximated black powder in terms of chamber pressure when used in firearms, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion products; th

... (short for ''Maschinenpistole 5'') was created within the fourth group of firearms, initially known as the '''HK54'''. The first MP5 models used a double-column straight box [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]], but since 1977, slightly curved, steel magazines are used with

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Manufacturers markings are as follows: ...ed his father's occupation of watchmaking while maintaining an interest in firearms. Eventually, Lee moved to Wisconsin and took up gun design on a full time b

... was not actually much of an oddity, as many nations were switching to new firearms in this general period. ...t, especially with a switch to a smokeless powder going on (started by the French in 1886). The bolt action Lee rifle in 1879, which had a newly invented det

...ice during the 1960s, when the M1 carbine would be replaced by the 5.56 mm firearms — the M16 and its carbine variants, such as the [[Colt Commando|XM177/CAR ...They were found to be suited to the kind of operation the two British, two French, and one Belgian Regiment carried out. It was handy enough to parachute wit

...In United States law, a Machine Gun is defined (in part) by The [[National Firearms Act]] of 1934, 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) as “''... any weapon which shoots ... ...nt of nearly all other [[Semi-automatic firearm|semi]] and fully automatic firearms of 20th century.

..., and later the mass production, of the [[Lebel rifle]] which was the main French infantry weapon used during the First World War (1914-18). ...r arsenals and private industry, MAC designed and manufactured some of the french famous small arms, among them the [[FM_24/29_light_machine_gun|FM 24/29]] m

The '''Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne''' (MAS) was a French state-owned manufacturing company located in the town of Saint-Étienne. 12,000 weapons were being produced each year when French Revolution happened. The city was renamed Armsville during the revolutionar

... sort of "arms race" regarding developments of small arms. In [[1886]] the French Army introduced the [[Lebel rifle|Lebel Model 1886]] using [[smokeless powd ..., [[Fabrique Nationale]], one of the world's major firearms developers and manufacturers, was established in [[1889]] in order to manufacture the 150,000 Mauser Mod

===M1920 French Police Contract=== The French government set up an order for 1,000 pistols with 3.9-inch [99mm] barrels f

...urrent legislation is restrictive by nature,<ref>[http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/spain Spain: Gun Facts, Figures and the Law]</ref> most effort is pl ...atened to introduce significant modifications to [[firearms regulations]] (firearms are governed by special regulations rather than statutory law). Although th

Since early firearms, such as the [[blunderbuss]], [[arquebus]] and [[musket]] tended to have la ...1/2 feet) for fowling pieces<ref>[http://plymoutharch.tripod.com/id71.html Firearms in Plymouth Colony]</ref>, shorter than the typical musket.

...k off enemy soldiers showing their heads out of their trench. At first the French and British believed such hits to be coincidental hits, until the German sc ...a diameter of 1 yard (36 inches) at 1,000 yards (1,000 m). Many commercial manufacturers use 3.5, splitting the difference, since it is easier with which to work.

...DI to the Thales Group's Australian holdings, the Australian branch of the French military engineering firm. All ADI operations have been taken over by the c [[Category:Australian firearms manufacturers]]

...ent [[United States|American]] maker of [[semi-automatic firearm|repeating firearms]] during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...[T.C. Johnson]], was instrumental in the development of these self-loading firearms and indeed went on to assist with the design of the Winchester [[Winchester