Search results

... and their collaborators, ammunition manufacturers, machine manufacturers, gunsmiths, ballistic specialists and so on. Two sub-commissions exist within the comm ...e is any contradiction between English or German language versions and the French original text, the latter prevails.

...avy [[receiver]] like the [[bolts]] of the Russian [[SKS]] [[carbine]] and French [[MAS-49]] series of semi-automatic rifles. The gas system is fitted with a ...he mid-1980s. IMBEL-made receivers have been much in demand among American gunsmiths building FALs from "parts kits."

'''François Prélat''' was a French [[gunsmith]] and inventor. He is thought to have invented the first fully-c [[Category:French gunsmiths]]

[[Image:Pistolet-marine-19e-1.png|thumb|Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century, using a [[Percussion cap]] mechanism]] The word "pistol" is derived from the French ''pistole'' (or ''pistolet''), which has these possible origins:

[[Image:AME1.jpg|thumb|left|[[AME 49]], French [[StG45]] in [[.30 Carbine]].]] *'''G3A1''': The terminology used by custom gunsmiths (e.g. Choate) and importers (e.g. Interarms) for weapons with an aftermarke

...el+Pauly]</ref> He fought as a member of the Swiss Army, together with the French, under Masséna. During his campaigns, in 1799, Pauly wrote a manual about ...ptember 1812.<ref name="Smyth"/> The cartridge was further improved by the French gunsmith [[Casimir Lefaucheux]] in 1836.

...rifle]] which was a tube magazine rimfire metallic cartridge repeater. The French transformed the 11mm Chassepot into a metallic cartridge bolt action rifle, [[Category:German gunsmiths]]

...d G40k Page - go to "sommaire" at the bottom of the page to use the index (French)]</ref> ...e">[http://tirmilitairefabrice.ifrance.com/site%20mauser1/Kar%2098%20k.htm French K98k and G40k Page]</ref>

Sometime in the middle 1570’s, Madrid gunsmiths introduced a prototype miquelet lock, possibly based on a lock developed in ...' lock, again due to Bourbon court influence. It had the appearance of the French flintlock, but was Spanish in operation due to the horizontal sears.

Gunsmiths like [[Joseph Manton]] invented more reliable forms of [[Lock|ignition]], l ...res of this kind, which ignited on impact hammer on a special hammer. The French [[gunsmith]] [[Jean Lepage]] developed a similar form of ignition later in

... big barrel. Moreover the big Tun English barrel is, as stated in Ton, the French old and contemporary ''tonne'' barrel.

...(born 26 January 1802, in Bonnétable; died 9 August 1852, in Paris) was a French gunsmith, who is probably best known as the man who invented the [[pinfire] [[Category:French gunsmiths]]