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.../U'', indicating the arrangement of barrels. The original double barreled guns were nearly all SxS designs, which was a more practical design in the days ...ound be ejected and a new one be loaded, which takes time. Even the few [[machine gun|fully automatic]] shotguns which have been built, such as the [[USAS-12

The [[United Kingdom|British]] [[.303 British|.303]] Browning aircraft machine gun introduced in the late 1930s and used in World War II was actually a li ...|M240]] medium machine guns, [[FN FNP series|FNP series pistols]] and [[M2 machine gun]]s.

...e Factory]] adapted the action to a [[light machinegun]], the [[Huot light machine gun|Huot]], using surplus rifles. These were cheaper than the [[Lewis gun]] * Bodinson, Holt, "Sir Charles Ross and His Straight Pulls" ''Guns'', Vol. 58, No. 11, Issue 682, November 2012 (Publisher Development Corp.)

...owning Hi-Power]], [[Heckler & Koch USP|HK USP]], [[Glock]], [[M2 Browning machine gun]], [[MG42]], Ceska Zbrojovka [[Vz. 52 (pistol)|Vz 52]], [[M82 Barrett r ...re the barrel(s) are hinged and can be "broken open" to expose the breech. Multi-barrel break action firearms are usually subdivided into over-and-under or side-by

|type= Early [[machine gun]] ...m the report of Captain Lloyd, R. A., commanding a battery of four Gardner guns in the Third Burmese War.</ref>

... barrel. The [[Maxim gun]], invented in 1884, was the first self-powered [[machine gun]]. The first Gatling gun relied on a hand crank for external power. Som ...cticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally-owned Gatling gun to Saskatchewan in 1885 for use ag

...gned for that role. In modern practice, they are air-cooled medium machine guns firing rifle cartridges such as the [[7.62x51mm NATO]]. They are generally ... 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

...ock GmbH''' (trademarked as '''GLOCK''') is a weapons manufacturer of hand guns that are trade marked as the 'Safe Action Pistol'. Glock is headquartered i ...ds before branching out into the arms industry in the 1970s, manufacturing machine gun belts, practice [[hand grenade]]s, plastic magazines, field knives, and

...s [[firearm]]s to factory or customer specifications, using hand tools and machine shop tools (such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders). ...ps one [[pistol]]. This has led to the development of the "[[Drilling]]" a multi-barrel gun that may incorporate a [[double-barrelled shotgun]] above with a high-p

...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]]. ...[semi-automatic pistol]]s, and [[Automatic firearm|fully automatic]], or [[machine pistol]]s.

|type= [[Assault rifle]] (G11)<br>[[Light machine gun]] (LMG11)<br>[[Personal defense weapon]] (G11 PDW) |variants= Assault Rifle<br>Light Machine Gun (LMG11)<br>Personal Defence Weapon (G11 PDW)

... Automatic Rifle]] program, designed to partially replace the [[M249 light machine gun]] at the squad level for the United States Marine Corps.<ref name="IAR |Army Ranger Wing<ref>Tactical Weapons, May 2010 Issue. Guns of the Elite: Multi-Mission Warriors, page 92.</ref>

...' (Assault Rifle) and an '''ARM''' (Assault Rifle and Machine gun) [[light machine gun]]. The [[light machine gun]] variant is additionally equipped with a carry handle and a folding bi

*[[.50 BMG]] primers, used for the .50 Browning Machine Gun cartridge and [[wildcat cartridge|derivatives]] ...sirable for anything but belt-fed machine guns and pistol-sized submachine guns. The reason is that the mass of the bolt, moving forward, causes the gun t

...], 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.]]

...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 ...as the German [[FG 42|FG42]] and [[M1941 Johnson machine gun|Johnson light machine gun]]; they located the barrel in line with the stock, well below eye level

...ohn Browning]]'s design has been one of the longest serving and successful machine gun designs]] ...machine gun. The original Maxim of the 1880s was the first fully automatic machine gun, as well as using a [[Belt (ammo)|belt of linked ammunition]] rather th

[[Image:M240G-0167-2004-01.jpg|thumb|300px|U.S. Marines firing an [[M240 machine gun|M240G]] at Camp Hansen, Okinawa]] ...pod]]. They occupy a gray area between [[light machine gun]]s and [[heavy machine gun]]s.

Some early rifled guns were created with special barrels that had a twisted polygonal shape. Speci ...el, and also causes the barrel to heat up more rapidly. Therefore, some [[machine-gun]]s are equipped with quick-change barrels that can be swapped every few

*cutting one groove at a time with a machine tool, called '''cut rifling''' or '''single point cut rifling''' ...ng a slightly oversized projectile which is forced into the grooves. Such guns have achieved significant increases in muzzle velocity and range. Examples