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... century. At that time, they had compelling advantages over the primitive firearms of the day. For example, air guns could be fired in wet weather and rain (u ...üchse'' carried twenty .51 in (13 mm) lead balls in a tubular [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]]. A skilled shooter could fire off one magazine in about thirty

Wants to ban private ownership of firearms but feels fine getting a [[CCW|concealed carry permit]] to protect her '''o ...ice loaned them to Morrissey in [[May 1991]]. He said in [[1994]] that the firearms had been missing since at least [[December 1992]], when Virginia Department

...f war material was even possible for many centuries after the invention of firearms. At the battle of Liegnitz (1760) a general officer was specially commissio ... troops who have to use them. This was always the case even with the older firearms, as, owing to the great weight of the ammunition, the soldier could only ca

...of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into the [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]] of a repeating [[firearm]]. This speeds up the process of loadi ...the firearm. Cartridges and clip are inserted as a unit into a [[Magazine (firearms)|fixed magazine]] within the rifle, and the clip is usually ejected or fall

...t wasn't until soldiers met armored vehicles that the conflict of infantry firearms and armour began. The introduction of armoured cars and tanks resulted in t ...t. The 13.2x92mm (0.538 in) cartridge was not unusual either, some 0.50 in firearms having been fielded in land warfare with the relatively new and more powerf

...and Professor Thomas Blackwell, where he opened fire with a [[.380 ACP]] [[semi-automatic handgun]]. According to a county coroner, powder burns indicated that both ...shooting took place, he was approached by two students with [[CCW|personal firearms]]<ref>''The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun

|products= [[firearms]] ...n survival weapon, the [[AR-7]], was chambered in [[.22 Long Rifle]]. The semi-automatic AR-7 was noteworthy in that it could be disassembled, and the components st

|action= [[semi-automatic]] ...ing purpose by the U.S. Justice Department's [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF).

...]. Examples of assault rifles include the [[AK-47]] and the [[M16 rifle]]. Semi-automatic rifles, including commercial versions of the [[AR-15]], and "automatic" rif ...anslation “assault rifle” gradually became the common term for similar firearms sharing the same technical definition as the name giver StG 44. In a strict

... to be pejorative and politically-motivated when used to describe civilian firearms. This term is seldom used outside of the United States in this context. ...1994 [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban]]. See the U.S. Code of 2004 section on firearms.<ref>[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=921 F

Caliber for the 400 was the 9mm Bergman-Bayard named after the first semi-automatic pistol in use with the Spanish Army, albeit for a brief period, being later ...s its activities as "''Production, commerce, maintenance and reparation of firearms of all sorts and ammunitions, as well as of electronic, mechanical and othe

...rom [[Browning BAR-1918]] [[automatic rifle]], which allowed for selective semi-automatic of full-automatic fire from open bolt. Feeding was from detachable magazine *[http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/sh29-e.htm Modern Firearms Atchisson AA-12 page]

During the same period of time, significant advance in firearms technology produced dozens of inventions, most of them ill fated but others ...l Vieille]] and the first jacketed [[bullets]], two world's first event in firearms history that were being used in the [[Lebel_Model_1886_rifle|1886 Lebel rif

...d (and possibly also Prohibited) firearms at the discretion of the [[Chief Firearms Officer]] (CFO) of the province(s) in which the transport occur[http://www. ...censed individual who has one of the listed reasons. In theory, the Chief Firearms Officer should issue an ATT to any qualified individual who provides one of

...d. "Automatic [[pistol]]" or "automatic [[shotgun]]" generally refers to a semi-automatic design, while "automatic rifle" more often means a fully automatic or [[sel Fully automatic firearms are covered in these articles:

...This "select-fire" capability, as well as the (general) use of [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]]-fed rifle [[ammunition]], differentiate it from other classes o ...ere are books which feature a section for automatic rifles listing several semi-automatic self-loading rifles, but not a single fully automatic weapon. On the other

|action= [[Blowback]]-operated [[semi-automatic]] ...[single action]], blow back mechanism. The manual thumb operated [[safety (firearms)|safety]] locks the [[Pistol slide|slide]] in the closed position when enga

{{youtube|yAlixegkf0o}}'''Ballistic fingerprinting''', a sub-category of firearms examination, is a forensic method that is intended to help find the [[firea ...ms]] use a distinctive 16-groove ''Micro-Groove'' rifling in many of their firearms, while the [[M1903 Springfield rifle]] had two, four, or six grooves depend

...odern French, were used as root words for various English terms related to firearms (and storage barrels). The old French ''[[gonne]]'' (pronounced by a French ...let]] or shell as it is being pushed out by the expanding gas(es). Early [[firearms]] were mostly [[muzzle loading]] (loaded from the mouth rather than the bre

... can also include older military [[bolt-action]] or [[semi-automatic rifle|semi-automatic]] rifles such as the [[Mosin Nagant]] or the [[M1 Garand]].<ref>Pomeroy, As ...e [[Germany|German]] [[StG 44]].<ref>Markham, George, ''Guns of the Reich: Firearms of the German Forces 1939-1945'', Arms and Armour Press (1989), pp.115-116<