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...ould influence post-war small arms development (particularily in the [[M60 machine gun]]) and ultimately help shape the modern [[assault rifle]] concept.<ref ...during jumps. At Crete, long-range rifle fire from dug-in [[United Kingdom|British]] defenders (largely [[New Zealand]]ers from 5 Brigade's 22nd Battalion) in

The '''Fusil Automatique Léger''' (Light Automatic Rifle) or '''FAL''' is a [[7.62x51 NATO]] [[Self-loading rifle|se ...including one in [[bullpup]] configuration, chambered for their new [[.280 British]] calibre intermediate cartridge. After evaluating the single bullpup proto

|type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ...eavy infantry '''Model 60-20''' machine gun, the '''Model 60-40''' coaxial machine gun for armoured fighting vehicles and the '''Model 60-30''' aircraft varia

|type= [[Light machine gun]] ...achine gun”) is a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[5.56x45mm NATO|5.56 mm]] [[light machine gun]] developed by [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal|Fabrique Nationale]] (FN

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.

|cartridge= [[.303 British]] ([[7.70×56 mm R]])<br>[[.280 Ross]] ...' was a [[Bolt action#Other designs|straight-pull]] [[bolt action]] [[.303 British|.303 inch]]-[[calibre]] [[rifle]] produced in [[Canada]] from 1903 until 19

... [[Heckler & Koch]] USP .45 ACP [[handgun]] with a Surefire X200a Tactical Light, surrounded by [[Hollow-point bullet|hollow-point]] ammunition.]] ...round with a single manipulation of the [[trigger|firing device]] to be a "machine gun" for regulatory purposes. Other terms, including "firearm" itself, hav

...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

...y members of the [[Israel]]i intelligence agency, the Mossad, the CIA, the British, Chilean, Iraqi or South African government were behind the assassination.< ... harness the intellectual resources of Canada, as well as place developing British technology outside of German reach during [[World War II]]. Formed up on a

...uns]] (not [[pump-action]] or semi-automatic), [[air rifles]], [[paintball guns]], and [[airsoft|airsoft/soft air rifles]] (depending on State). ...un]]s, rocket launchers, [[assault rifle]]s, [[flame-thrower]]s, anti-tank guns, Howitzers, [[artillery]], [[.50 BMG|.50-calibre BMG]] weapons, etc. (Colle

...lly adapted from the roller-locked recoil operating system of the [[MG42]] machine gun but with a fixed barrel and gas system. It was realized that with caref ... The '''AME 49''' under the name ''Carabine Mitrailleuse 1950'' (English: "machine carbine", German: ''Maschinenkarabiner'') was retained for production amon

...rmy's [[XM8 rifle]] project cancelled in 2005 and the modernization of the British Armed Forces [[SA80]] small arms family. ...ttalions (one per each Marine Expeditionary Force and one reserve) and one light armored reconnaissance battalion; all are slated to deploy to Afghanistan i

|type= [[Automatic rifle]], [[Light machine gun]] }}The '''Huot''' was a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[World War I]] [[light machine gun]] project.

...heir tactical doctrine of basing a squad's firepower on the unit's [[light machine gun]] and possibly their problems of mass producing [[semi-automatic rifle] ...le round]] that was more powerful than the pistol cartridges of submachine guns, but that could be used like a submachine gun in close-quarters and urban f

...icense-produced Colt [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]]), and 40 mm anti-aircraft guns. However, production was kept down by sabotage and slow work by the employe A small number of Krag-Jørgensen rifles were converted into harpoon guns, in the same fashion as the [[Jarmann M1884]]. It was realized that convert

|cartridge= [[.303 British|.303 Mk VII SAA Ball]] |used_by=United Kingdom & Colonies, British Commonwealth, Thailand

...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. This rifle has a long and colorful history in British service. The "Lee"

...], 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.]]

... Mk.4]], but put into production at Enfield. Standard service revolver of British forces in World War II. The .38SW was a poor replacement for the much bet ... revolver of [[World War I]], led to the Enfield No.2. Served widely with British and Commonwealth forces in World War II.

...wered [[rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [ | [[.280 British]]

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 />

|name= Carbine, Machine, Sten ...itish]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]]s used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout [[World War II]] and the Korean War. The

...m complicated circumstances in Nazi Germany. Developed from the Mkb 42(H) "machine carbine", the StG44 combined the characteristics of a [[carbine]], [[submac ... knocking a leaning rifle onto a hard floor.<ref>Shore, C. (Capt.), ''With British Snipers to the Reich'', Samworth Press, 1948</ref> Many of these criticisms

|used_by=U.S. military, FBI, Swedish Army, British Army, Canadian Army, Australian Army, National Revolutionary Army ...ired by the trench warfare of World War I to develop a "one-man, hand-held machine gun", firing a [[rifle]] caliber round. While searching for a way to allow

|name= Vickers Medium Machine Gun |type= [[Medium machine gun]]

...d the world, including the American Special Forces. It is also called the "Light Fifty" for its [[.50 BMG|.50 caliber BMG]] (12.7 mm) chambering. The weapon ...(.50 BMG)]] ammunition, originally developed for and used in [[M2 Browning machine gun]]s. Barrett began his work in the early 1980s and the first working rif

|name= .280 British |designer= British Army

|name= .303 British (7.7x56mm Rimmed) ...ata(Rifle)/311Cal(7.90mm)/303%20British%20pages%20282%20and%20283.pdf .303 British] Accurate Powder</ref>

...], and [[sabot]]ed [[sub-caliber round]]s. The rounds intended for machine guns are linked using metallic links. ...esulted in many specialized [[match-grade]] rounds not used in .50 machine guns. A [[McMillan TAC-50]] .50 BMG [[sniper rifle]] was used by Canadian Corpo

...termediate" round since 1945 and were on the point of introducing a [[.280 British|.280 inch (7 mm) round]] when the selection of the 7.62 mm round was made. ...t should also give enhanced performance in [[M16 rifle]]s and [[M249 light machine gun]]s. The new 62-grain (4 g) projectile or bullet used in the M855A1 roun

...ticles/mi_m0BQY/is_/ai_n16741375 The old Three-Line: still a great value], Guns Magazine, Nov, 2006</ref> ... commonly use a 7.91&nbsp;mm (.311 in) bullet, as do older British ([[.303 British]]) and Japanese cartridges.

|notes= Source:Popenker <ref>[http://world.guns.ru/ammo/am03-e.htm Max R. Popenker]</ref><ref>[[NATO EPVAT testing]]</ref> ...remain in service, especially in the case of [[sniper rifle]]s and machine guns. The round is used by infantry and from ground vehicles, aircraft and ships

...ewehr 98]] and the later [[Karabiner 98k]] [[rifle]]s and medium [[machine guns]]. ...fle and the license-built [[MG42]] copy, the [[M53 machine gun|M53 Sarac]] machine gun.

*[[Cartridge]]s, like those used in [[rifle]]s, [[handgun]]s and [[machine gun]]s (collectively known as small arms), are called Small Arms Ammunition ...be fired all at once in a single discharge are also called shot; hand-held guns designed for this type of ammunition are generally known as [[shotgun]]s.

...[battle rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [ ...er<ref>"[http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/stg44-assault-rifle.html Machine Carbine Promoted]," ''Tactical and Technical Trends'', No. 57, April 1945.<

|type= [[Light machine gun]] |cartridge= [[.303 British]]<br>[[7.92x57mm Mauser]] (for [[Republic of China]] in World War II)<br>[[

...bullet - Definitions from Dictionary.com]</ref> However, bullets for air guns are not part of a cartridge. ... a barrel's "rifling" (internal grooves) at the moment of being fired; the British Board of Ordnance rejected it because spherical bullets had been in use for

...bvious that the modern warfare would require the infantry to be armed with light, selective fire weapon with effective range of fire much longer than of sub ...ips, telescopic sight as standard, and a modular design. Highly reliable, light, and accurate, the Steyr AUG showed clearly the potential of the bullpup la

...ding line was chosen, apparently, to exempt almost all air, gas and spring guns. The government's experts refused to consider the NFA's repeated submissi ...plastic for lead. Using the lightweight pellets, many air, gas and spring guns began to routinely exceed the limiting muzzle velocity. That, in turn, dis

...similar to those used in the Second World War, with the exception of naval guns, which are now significantly smaller in caliber. In particular, [[autocanno ...lery)|gun]]&mdash;used before the advent of [[breech-loading]], [[rifled]] guns&mdash;may be referred to as a cannon, though the term specifically refers t

...shorter effective range, while also generally being larger than submachine guns and thus harder to maneuver in close quarters. Like full-sized assault rifl ... slightly different ballistically to the [[.30-06 Springfield]] and [[.303 British]] cartridges), along with several rifles such as the [[FN FAL]] and [[M14 r

...ominally) .30 inches (7.6 mm) caliber round designed in 1906; and the .303 British round may vary wildly in actual dimensions (as do the surviving rifle chamb Most high-powered guns have relatively small bullets moving at high speeds. This is because bullet