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[[Image:BARVietnam.jpg|thumb|The BAR remained in limited use during the early part of the Vietnam War]] ... pressed into use in the Korean War as well. The BAR was also used in the early stages of the Vietnam War, when the U.S. passed a quantity to the South Vie

...rer=[[Springfield Armory]], [[Winchester Repeating Arms Company]], [[H & R Firearms|Harrington & Richardson Co.]], International Harvester, [[Beretta]] Firearms designer [[John Garand|John C. Garand]], working at the Army's [[Springfiel

...hter .276 [[Cartridge|round]], but this design feature was canceled in the early 1930s. The M1 rifle would eventually be chambered for the same powerful [[. ...ovelty to service ammunition at this time. Some misfires were reported in early lots of .30 M1 carbine ammunition, attributed to moisture ingress of the no

...A.com website]</ref> and was introduced to U.S. military forces during the early 1970s. Replacing the older [[M79 grenade launcher]] and conceptually simila ...ms Act]] part 26 U.S.C. 5845, 27 CFR 479.11,<ref>[http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/nfa/nfa_handbook/chapter2.pdf ATF NFA Handbook, Chapter 2]</ref> because th

...ting and modifying M240 variants for replacing their remaining M60s in the early 1990s. By comparison, the M240 is several pounds heavier than the M60, and The design drew on many common concepts in firearms manufacture of the period, such as stamped sheet metal construction, belt f

...n.<ref>Popenker, Max. "[http://world.guns.ru/smg/de/mp3-mp40-e.html Modern Firearms — MP-38 and MP-40 submachine guns]".</ref> ...st MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns was an aluminum, steel, or bakelite (an early plastic) resting bar or support under the barrel which was used to steady t

...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 ...uced "select fire" copies of the C96 with detachable magazines, and in the early 1930s Mauser engineers introduced the model 711 and 712 ''Schnellfeuer'' va

The term grew from the advent of the [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]]-fed, bolt action rifles and was a means of polishing the soldie The mad minute turned out to be extremely useful in the early stages of the Great War, when the lightly-armed British Expeditionary Force

...gazines can still be found today, commonly in shotguns, rimfire rifles, or firearms designed to use round-nose, flat-nose, or otherwise soft-pointed bullets. T ...ines sacrifice reliability, though, being more complicated. Many drum-fed firearms can also load from conventional boxes, such as the [[Russia]]n [[RPK]] ligh

...stol grip like the [[Uzi submachine gun#Variants|Micro-Uzi Pistol]] or the early models of the Beretta 92 and [[Beretta 93R]]. These are intended to be act Some firearms combine both systems like the [[Heckler & Koch MP5]] and [[Heckler & Koch G

...o suit the British [[Webley Revolver|Webley .455 service revolver]] in the early 20th century. The ammunition used a 220 [[grain (measure)|grain]] cylindric ... and an object of much [[terminal ballistics]] research and debate amongst firearms users and ammunition manufacturers.

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...cks.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Ming Dynasty (AD 1368-1644) Chinese [[matchlock]] firearms.]] ...nissary corps of the Ottoman army were soon using matchlock [[musket]]s as early as the 1440s. The matchlock appeared in Europe some time in the mid-1400s,

...orted and licensed to a number of countries since the later Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, as well as being a popular civilian firearm. ===The early years===

... a Mauser M1932.]][[File:Mauser C96 prototype 1895Mar15.jpg|thumb|right|An early C96 prototype.]] ...ring hammer" (spurless hammer with a hole through its head) instead of the early "cone hammer" (spurless hammer with ribbed cone-like projections on the sid

...f urging the federal Congress to pass laws to control the trade in illegal firearms and to pass laws to make it easier for law enforcement to identify the orig ...slation that meets their stated goals of curtailing illegal acquisition of firearms and aiding law enforcement in tracking illegal gun purchases. The group's

... the firearms designers of the day. Soon there was a host of new automatic firearms that used this concept, such as the [[Borchardt pistol]], the [[Cei-Rigotti ===Early 1900s: Medium, Heavy and Light===

...etallic silhouette shooting can be done with [[airgun]]s, [[black powder]] firearms, modern [[handgun]]s, or modern [[rifle]]s. The targets used are rams, tur ...ette is descended from an old [[Mexico|Mexican]] sport, dating back to the early 1900s, where live game animals were staked out at varying distances as targ

==Early life== ...as assigned to the Central Scientific-developmental Firing Range for Rifle Firearms of the Chief Artillery Directorate of RKKA.