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  • [[Image:Combination guns.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A picture showing typical combination gun (top), drilling (middle), and vierling (bottom) barrel layouts]] ... A '''drilling''' (from the [[German]] ''drei'' for ''three'') refers to a combination gun that has three barrels, which may be any mixture of rifle and shotgun b
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  • ...angerous and had a quick temper. He was known for his habit of wearing two guns and being equally accurate with either hand. He disappeared from the record ...re was animosity and worries among the local Americans about the dangerous combination of enraged Mexicans and them being heavily armed within the city limits. A
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  • .../U'', indicating the arrangement of barrels. The original double barreled guns were nearly all SxS designs, which was a more practical design in the days ...be taken almost immediately after the first. Pump-action and semiautomatic guns require that the fired round be ejected and a new one be loaded, which take
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  • ...-and-under barrel configurations. Double rifles are one of the family of [[combination gun]]s. In general, double rifles are much more expensive than the much mor
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  • ...eavy enough to provide a quick kill on large game. These early smoothbore guns were typically measured by [[gauge (bore diameter)|gauge]], as most modern Another item to bear the name ''express'' is the iron sight combination, used by William Greener and still found on express rifles today, consistin
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  • ...r Merkel Drilling 1609.jpg|thumb|250px|German [[Combination gun|"Drilling" Combination Gun]]]] ...by-side configurations for two barrel configurations or "[[Combination gun|combination gun]]" when mixed rifle and shotgun barrels are used.
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  • ! Subject/Law !! Long guns!! Handguns !! Relevant Statutes !! Notes ! Subject/Law !! Long guns!! Handguns !! Relevant Statutes !! Notes
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  • ...-kasiaseita.aspx]. Permits are not required for muzzle-loaded black powder guns made before 1890 as long as they are not used. War booty from World War 2 a ...an have special licenses for firearms otherwise not permitted (e.g. pocket guns or select fire weapons). These are usually issued based on the collector's
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  • ... a hard surface from a height of a metre or more. Firing will occur in any combination of positions only on impact. [http://www.hfmgroup.com/professionalsupplies/
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  • ...longed firing from heavy mounts, less mobile, or static positions (or some combination of the two). The latter meaning is generally thought of as an older meaning ...15 mm are generally thought of as [[autocannon]]s instead of heavy machine guns.
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  • ...[Glock]] was the first firearms manufacturer to use polymers in their hand guns, however it was Heckler & Koch who actually claimed that title when they re ... a planned replacement for the [[M16 rifle|M16]]/[[M203]] grenade launcher combination. The OICW was designed to fire 5.56 mm bullets and 25 mm grenades. The kine
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  • This unique system, much like a refined combination of the pinfire and rimfire, uses a firing pin that strikes a ring of primin ...sirable for anything but belt-fed machine guns and pistol-sized submachine guns. The reason is that the mass of the bolt, moving forward, causes the gun t
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  • ...his method of aiming is not as precise as that of a front sight/rear sight combination, but it is much faster, and the wide spread of [[shotshell|shot]] allows a ...host ring sights are commonly installed on combat shotguns and sub-machine guns (and to a much lesser extent, rifles). The ghost ring is a fairly recent i
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  • ..., and police markets. Also known as the Featherlight, it utilizes a novel combination ejection/loading port on the bottom of the gun which leaves the sides close ...nut pin was furnished only on guns built prior to [[1955]]. On later-built guns having no pin, simply rotate the magazine nut.)<br>The barrel is joined to
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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. ...he front sight and the "battle sight" setting of the rear sight. Once this combination was sighted in, the elevation adjustments of the rear sight were correct fo
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  • ...om, increasingly replacing the earlier M16A2. In the United States Army, a combination of the M16A4 and [[M4 carbine|M4 Carbine]] have replaced the A2 as frontlin ...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
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  • ...]s and [[revolver]]s to be insufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] were more than sufficientl ...onsideration at the time. Prior to the development and issue of submachine guns such as the [[M3 submachine gun|M3 "Grease Gun"]], a submachine gun like th
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  • ...l T-44 machine gun developed from the German [[FG42]] and [[MG42]] machine guns.]] ...fle]]-caliber machine guns. The M60 was among the lightest 7.62 mm machine guns of the era and lighter than the M240 that is replacing it.
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  • ... the worst performing of these components. Therefore, in this example the combination of rifle, ammunition and shooter can never be better(lower) than 4 MOA. Th ... NATO]] ammunition is a comparatively large 3,725 meters, and both machine guns and sniper rifles are not able to use even half of the maximum range of the
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  • ...un'' January 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.1896mauser.com/spanish.htm Spanish Guns] - 1896mauser.com</ref> ...he [[.357 Magnum]] cartridge in 1935.<ref>Bishop, Chris (Editor) (1998). ''Guns in Combat''. Kent, UK: Grange Books. ISBN 1-84013-083-0. , Page 93</ref>
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