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  • ...possibly the classic post-war [[battle rifle]]. Formally introduced by its designers Dieudonne Saive and Ernest Vervier in 1951, and produced two years later, i ...Most military forces adopting the FAL eventually eliminated full-automatic firearms training in the light-barrel FAL.
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  • ...n Luger''' ([[March 6]] [[1849]] – [[December 22]] [[1923]]) was an Austrian designer of the famous [[Luger pistol]]. ...e attention of his superiors, he was sent to the Austro-Hungarian Military Firearms School at Camp Bruckneudorf, where he soon became an instructor. There, his
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  • ... since the impact of the powder used in the caseless ammo remains unknown. Designers claimed that because there was no ejection cycle the internal mechanisms wo ...to be researched by other companies. An alternative route was taken by the Austrian company, [[Voere]], which developed a caseless round for the [[Voere VEC-91
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  • ...ventually replace the G3, therefore further development of H&K's series of firearms chambered for the [[5.56x45mm NATO]] cartridge had been halted. Heckler & K ...id=knkWAAAAEBAJ&dq=Manfred+GuhringLoading lever assembly for hand-operated firearms]", US 5821445, issued 1996-10-13</ref>
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  • ...|Belt-fed]] weapons or rifles with very limited capacity fixed [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]]s are also generally not considered assault rifles. This list i | colspan="5"| In the 1990s, Izhmash designers developed the unified complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for d
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  • ...s hard to draw, the term submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that ... each pull of the trigger for a cyclic rate of 1100 rounds per minute. The designers limited it to fixed three-round bursts to allow it to be more easily contro
    13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:52, 15 March 2013
  • ...fles were fired at the Austrians, than by them.<ref>Roger A. Pauly (2004). Firearms: The Life Story of a Technology . Greenwood Press. p. 111. ISBN 0313327963. [[Category:Austrian firearms designers]]
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