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...rowning]] and produced by the [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company]] in the early 1900s. The Model 1902 was not a new de
...assic. The Colt was ergonomically the opposite, having poor balance and a crude grip, it also lacked safety mechanisms (the abandoned and unpopular [[sight
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...out Asia until at least the 1520s, when it was supplanted by [[matchlock]] firearms.
... less effective in open battle and in wet or windy conditions. Despite its crude appearance, the hand cannon could kill even armoured opponents at short ran
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...scopic sight body for unimpaired operation of the three-position [[safety (firearms)|safety catch lever]]. This ergonomic problem was solved by mounting the te
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...rear sight with tangental elevator, mated with a "barleycorn" front sight. Crude, but typical of the vast majority of bolt action military rifles in the ars
:A few of the late-issue, British-made No4s were equipped with only a crude, two-position "L"-shaped rear sight, which offered two elevations of battle
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...ons. The sword normally associated with this tradition, the ninja-to, is a crude version of the katana used by the Samurai class since the Samurai class for
...this and most martial arts. It is also the essence of why I am an owner of firearms. In Ninpo, as in Buddhism, one begins to change the world by first changing
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...upplied by the powder producing companies. Of course the best way to check firearms cartridge loads are actual [[proof test]] measurements at certified test fa
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... thinning cotton. His older brother James Henry designed and constructed a crude hand-powered aircraft with which he experimented unsuccessfully and also in
...ng in Indianapolis, Indiana. There he devoted himself to the perfection of firearms. In [[1861]], the same year the war started, he invented the [[Gatling gun]
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...t was out of fashion almost everywhere else, with a reputation for being a crude and unsafe peasant's weapon.
*Blair, Claude. Editor. ''Pollard's History of Firearms.'' New York: MacMillian, 1983
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|sights= [[iron sights]] so crude they may as well have not even been there.
...eeks — making it probably the only pistol in the entire [[history of firearms|history of gunfire]] that could be ''manufactured'' faster than it could be
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...[single action]], blow back mechanism. The manual thumb operated [[safety (firearms)|safety]] locks the [[Pistol slide|slide]] in the closed position when enga
... effort on the part of the Congress to curtail the importation of specific firearms. Motivated by yet another corporate reorganization, FN transferred product
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Automatic and semiautomatic firearms, which extract and eject the case automatically as a part of their operatio
..., a bullet going twice as fast has four times the energy (see [[physics of firearms]]). Bullet speeds are now limited by starting bore pressures, which in tur
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