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This is an extensive list of [[small arms]] — [[pistol]], [[machine gun]], [[grenade launcher]], [[anti-tank rifle]] — that includes variants **[[L115A1]] (UK - Bolt Action Rifle - .338 Lapua: British Service Weapon)

...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

...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= Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2, HB |image= Machine gun M2 1.jpg

|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.

...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

...dge was rimless which allowed smoother feeding for both rifles and machine guns. The original bullet had a round head; several redesigns including the adop ...to design their own Mauser-inspired high-velocity cartridge and rifle. The British [[Pattern 1913 Enfield|Pattern 1913]] rifle with Mauser style lug might hav

|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>

During the Napoleonic Wars the British army created several experimental units known as "Rifles", armed with the [ Some early rifled guns were created with special barrels that had a twisted polygonal shape. Speci

...ferred to the [[Royal Ordnance]]’s Nottingham Small Arms Facility (later British Aerospace, Royal Ordnance; now BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions & Ordnanc ... service rifles, further development of these rifles was discontinued (the British Army chose to adopt the 7.62 mm L1A1 SLR automatic rifle, which is a licens

...196 mm (7.7 in)<ref name="worldgunsru">"P226", Guns.ru, web: [http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg09-e.htm Modern Firearms article on P226].</ref> ...er, a stainless steel Nitron slide topped with SIGLITE night sights, and a light weight alloy frame with rail.

...s [[SA80|SA80 series weapons]] and [[FN Minimi|L108 and L110 light machine guns]]. It is also used in the armies of Cameroon, Oman, Spain and Sweden, in as ...tium]]-illuminated for low-light condition aiming. The radioactive tritium light source has to be replaced every 8–12 years, since it gradually loses its

...automatic rifle|Semi-automatic]] [[battle rifle]] (L1A1/C1A1)<br />[[Light machine gun]] (L2A1/C2A1) |used_by= British Commonwealth ([[L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle#Users|See Users]])

...al common law right of self-defense. Indeed, in his arguments on behalf of British troops in the Boston Massacre, John Adams invoked the common law of self-de ...ection. Rather, legal protection for personal self-defense arises from the British common law tradition and modern criminal law; not from constitutional law."

...zle velocity|muzzle velocities]] which required high [[trajectories]]; the guns were mortars or [[howitzers]]. ...nnon]]s were invented by the French General [[Henri-Joseph Paixhans]]. The guns were adopted by various navies from the 1840s, thereby triggering the demis

...Hunting laws may differentiate between smooth barreled and rifled barreled guns. ...ly automatic shotgun a shotgun, even though legally it would fall into a [[Machine gun|different category]]. Amongst the general populace, any gun that fires

...ammunition]] was expended. The Sputter Gun was, however, reclassified as a machine gun by the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|ATF]]. ...of firing multiple rounds by a single trigger action. This was changed, in light of the Sputter Gun, to read<ref name=autogenerated1 />