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...tained via internet mail from ... uh... whatever site holds the Sacred Rec.Guns FAQ. I'm not sure where that is, since I cannot directly access it myself. in its name is for James Paris Lee, a Scottish-born American who

This is an extensive list of [[small arms]] — [[pistol]], [[machine gun]], [[grenade launcher]], [[anti-tank rifle]] — that includes variants *[[Adams-Wilmont]] (UK - Aircraft Machine Gun - .303 British)

...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

...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 ...de for export as well; the Russians ordered several thousand M1895 machine guns in 1914 for use in World War I, and it saw service in England, France, and

|caption= Browning Model 1917A1 water cooled machine gun |type= [[Heavy machine gun]]

...R'''), is a family of [[automatic rifle]]s (or machine rifles) and [[light machine gun]]s used by the [[United States]] and other countries during the 20th ce ...nd [[Magazine (firearm)|magazine]] tended to hamper its utility as a light machine gun.

|name= Gun, Machine, Caliber .30, Browning, M1919A4 |type= [[Medium machine gun]]

...[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

|name= Machine Gun, 7.62 mm, M240 |type= [[General purpose machine gun]]

|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

...two steel weights. These weapons, known by Colt as the Model 921HB (for ''Heavy Barrel''), have also been designated M4A1, and as far as the government is ...'s Armament Company, Atlantic Research Marketing Systems (ARMS), and Lewis Machine & Tools. Daniel Defense has won the contract for the RIS-II, the next gener

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

|type= [[Machine gun]] ...ighest average [[rate of fire|rates of fire]] of any single-barreled light machine gun, between 1,200 and 1,500 rpm, resulting in a distinctive muzzle report.

... 38''' and '''MP 40''' (''MP'' designates ''Maschinenpistole'', literally "Machine Pistol") is a [[submachine gun]] developed in [[Nazi Germany]] and used ext ...erience with [[Soviet]] tactics - where entire units armed with submachine guns outgunned and shredded their German counterparts in short range urban comba

...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

...tion)|clip]]. The [[Belt (ammo)|belt]] of linked ammunition used by most [[machine gun]]s is an ammunition feeding device that is not a magazine, since it doe Today, drum magazines are used primarily for [[light machine gun]]s. In one type, a moving partition within a cylindrical chamber forces

|type= [[Machine pistol]] (M712 Schnellfeuer)<br>[[Semi-automatic pistol]] (all others) ...un'' January 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.1896mauser.com/spanish.htm Spanish Guns] - 1896mauser.com</ref>

[[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.

'''[[Stevens Arms]]''' was an [[United States|American]] [[firearm]]s manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864. The company ...f name=flayderman>Flayderman, Norm (1994). ''Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms''. DBI Books. p. 209.</ref> Business was slow into 1870, when it o