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...rship, use, and regulation of firearms as well as safety issues related to firearms both through their direct use and through legal and criminal use.<ref>Spitz ...ten find themselves faced with a range of penalties or sanctions regarding firearms by neighboring states.

...volumes of hot solids and gases which can be used as a [[propellant]] in [[firearms]] and fireworks. ...s that approximated black powder in terms of chamber pressure when used in firearms, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion products; th

|wars= [[World War II]], Korean War, First Indochina War, Chinese Civil War, Portuguese Colonial War, Algerian War, Vietnam War, Six Day War, ...ttp://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/uniforms_firearms/firearms/98k/k98index.htm Firearms of the Wehrmacht - Mauser Karabiner 98]</ref>

...ms in the United States, with versions manufactured by a handful of larger manufacturers and over a dozen smaller concerns. ...Lite was founded specifically to bring the latest in designs and alloys to firearms design, and Stoner felt he could easily beat the other offerings.

...f revolvers then in service. The United States of America was adopting new firearms at a phenomenal rate; several new handguns and two all-new service rifles ( ...mi-automatic in operation. This led to the 1906 trials of pistols from six firearms manufacturing companies (namely, [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]], [[B

... complaints by troops for failure to stop heavily-clothed North Korean and Chinese troops at close range after multiple hits. ...ice during the 1960s, when the M1 carbine would be replaced by the 5.56 mm firearms — the M16 and its carbine variants, such as the [[Colt Commando|XM177/CAR

...In United States law, a Machine Gun is defined (in part) by The [[National Firearms Act]] of 1934, 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) as “''... any weapon which shoots ... ...nt of nearly all other [[Semi-automatic firearm|semi]] and fully automatic firearms of 20th century.

...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 [[Image:NRA gas mask and Mauser.jpg|170px|thumb|left|A Chinese National Revolutionary Army soldier with a gas mask and a [[Mauser C96]] fi

...orld War I, [[World War II]], Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, Anglo-Irish War ... shape of its grip), and in China, the C96 was nicknamed the "box cannon" (Chinese: 盒子炮; pinyin: hézipào) because of both its square-shaped external m

...North Industries"), official English name '''Norinco'''. In addition to [[firearms]] and [[ammunition]], Norinco also manufactures vehicles (trucks, cars and * [[List of firearms#N|List of firearms]]

Since early firearms, such as the [[blunderbuss]], [[arquebus]] and [[musket]] tended to have la ...1/2 feet) for fowling pieces<ref>[http://plymoutharch.tripod.com/id71.html Firearms in Plymouth Colony]</ref>, shorter than the typical musket.

...ding. Much of the production could be performed by small workshops and the firearms assembled at the Enfield site. Over the period of manufacture the Sten desi ...100 yards.<ref>Popenker, Max. [http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg38-e.htm Modern Firearms - STEN submachine guns]</ref>

...ting Arms Company, best known at the time as manufacturers of lever-action firearms such as the [[Winchester Rifle|Winchester model 1873]]. Designer [[John Bro ...earm companies have successfully produced viable models for the commercial firearms market:

...ervice cartridges. Cartridges like the 5.45×39mm, [[5.56×45mm NATO]] and Chinese [[5.8×42mm DBP87|5.8×42mm]] allow a soldier to carry more ammunition for The [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] classified the 7N6 cartridge as "armor piercing handgun am

...he development of countless many other types of individual and crew-served firearms. It was one of the first true assault rifles and, due to its durability and ...not allow the precision and consistency that are required of more accurate firearms. Reflecting Soviet infantry doctrine of its time, the rifle is meant to be

...largely inspired by famous [[Mauser C96]] and intended for the Nationalist Chinese. Some of these models (Mod.903) were found in the hands of German soldiers ...s its activities as "''Production, commerce, maintenance and reparation of firearms of all sorts and ammunitions, as well as of electronic, mechanical and othe

==C-68 FIREARMS CONTROL DESIGN FAILURES== ...nability to write legislation that would create an integrated and workable firearms control system, which is a difficult thing to do. They apparently did not