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...n]] [[rifle]]s from the 1870s to present. Their designs were built for the German armed forces but have been exported and licensed to a number of countries s ...to the Chassepot, so in [[1871]] the Mauser Model 1871 became the standard German infantry rifle.

|origin= [[German Empire]] |type= [[Machine pistol]] (M712 Schnellfeuer)<br>[[Semi-automatic pistol]] (all others)

The recoil booster was first introduced in the [[Vickers machine gun]] of 1912. The Vickers, like the [[Maxim gun]] from which it was develo ...to use the standard [[7.62 x 51 mm NATO]] round, and currently used by the German military, still uses a boosted short recoil design.

...tic rifle (1906), the Frommer Stop line of pistols (1907) and the Chauchat machine rifle (1915). ...t]] design of [[Hugo Borchardt]], most famous for its use in the [[Germany|German]] [[Luger pistol]]. Most common are the John Browning tilting barrel desig

...ll used in some weapons today with one example being the [[Glock]] line of pistols (which fire standard bullets). Unfortunately, many early attempts resulted ...el, and also causes the barrel to heat up more rapidly. Therefore, some [[machine-gun]]s are equipped with quick-change barrels that can be swapped every few

*cutting one groove at a time with a machine tool, called '''cut rifling''' or '''single point cut rifling''' ...r velocities and greater accuracy. Polygonal rifling is currently seen on pistols from [[Heckler & Koch]], [[Glock]] and [[Kahr Arms]], as well as the [[Dese

...ir products. In 2000 the SIG Holding AG sold J.P. Sauer & Sohn GmbH to two German businessmen.<ref>[http://www.sigsauer.de/ Sauer: Intro]</ref> The brand nam ...A1]], [[Browning Hi-Power]] and [[CZ 75]], the P226 (and many other modern pistols) lock the barrel and slide together using an enlarged breech section of the

...a larger number of cartridges than a [[revolver]], although semi-automatic pistols are potentially more prone to malfunctions than revolvers due to their more ...rget or hunting pistols (a notable exception being Glock-brand competition pistols such as the G34 and G35 which are DAO, yet designed with low-strength sear

|name= Carbine, Machine, Sten ...or which I accept no responsibility." In:Laidler, Peter (2000). ''The Sten Machine Gun''. Ontario: Collector Grade Publications. pp. 363–364. ISBN 088935259

... [[firearm]] that combines the [[automatic firearm|automatic fire]] of a [[machine gun]] with the [[cartridge]] of a [[pistol]], and is usually between the tw ...in the latter stages of World War I both as improvement on earlier stocked pistols, and to offer an advantage in trench warfare.

...ired by the trench warfare of World War I to develop a "one-man, hand-held machine gun", firing a [[rifle]] caliber round. While searching for a way to allow ...uard asked him what was in his violin case. Benny replied "A Thompson sub-machine gun" with the guard supposedly saying "That's a relief, I thought it was yo

|type= [[submachine gun]] / [[machine pistol]] ... of [[submachine gun]]s. Smaller variants are more accurately considered [[machine pistol]]s.

...d instance of the weapon being used for their intended purpose. Many FP-45 pistols were never distributed and were destroyed by Allied forces after the war; a ...s]], [[MG 34|machine gun towers]], and all the other then-state-of-the-art German equipment, the horrors of the "final solution" were considered nothing more

...&mdash; The [[Belgian]] government endorsed delivery of 5,500 [[Minimi]] [[machine guns]] to the Nepalese Army. * [[Mexico]] cancelled all CCWs authorizing military caliber pistols and re-issued to authorize only up to [[.380 ACP]] caliber ''pistolas''.

... rounded nose of its bullet led some to believe it was designed for use in pistols. The M1 Carbine was issued to infantry officers, machine gun, artillery and tank crews, paratroopers and other line-of-communication

...endiary]], and [[sabot]]ed [[sub-caliber round]]s. The rounds intended for machine guns are linked using metallic links. ...es has resulted in many specialized [[match-grade]] rounds not used in .50 machine guns. A [[McMillan TAC-50]] .50 BMG [[sniper rifle]] was used by Canadian

...[battle rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [ ...er<ref>"[http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/stg44-assault-rifle.html Machine Carbine Promoted]," ''Tactical and Technical Trends'', No. 57, April 1945.<

...in order to increase production of the successful [[Campo-Giro]] series of pistols, produced since 1912. Several models of which, including [[model 1913-16]], ...CP]], it was produced with 153.085 units. 63.000 .380cal were delivered to German Nazis, 22.390 in [[32 ACP]]. The final destination of this large quantity o

...type of weapons is called Carabine Mitrailleuse (English: Machine Carbine, German: Maschinenkarabiner) Before WW2, german technicians will revive the study for an intermediate round after 1935. A n

... reported that in World War I [[France|French]] soldiers killed [[Germany|German]] prisoners who had serrated blade bayonets, as they assumed they were for ... the American Civil War, bayonet blades were even affixed to single-shot [[pistols]], although they soon proved useless for anything but cooking. Cutlasses re