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... their modern manufactured replicas, used in the sport are of the pre-1900 American West and Military eras. Competitors are encouraged to wear costumes or clothing of the [[American west]] or Classic B-Western Movies or military cavalry uniforms of any time

...901|Winchester 1887]] lever-action shotguns and Colt Lightning pump-action rifles are also legal. Both original and reproduction guns are equally acceptable. ... to 1899. Some CAS matches also offer side events for single-shot "buffalo rifles", [[derringers]], etc. Replica firearms are available from companies such a

...s and knees in a forward roll, did not allow for heavier equipment such as rifles and [[machine gun]]s to be safely carried during jumps. At Crete, long-rang ...iant that would ultimately be accepted into production as the FG 42. Fifty rifles were fabricated by Rheinmetall-Borsig for evaluation purposes by the end of

...Russian [[SKS]] [[carbine]] and French [[MAS-49]] series of semi-automatic rifles. The gas system is fitted with a gas regulator behind the front sight base, FAL rifles have also been manufactured in both light and heavy-barrel configurations,

... pistol grip was initially copied directly from the [[FN FAL|FAL]] and FNC rifles, currently a modified grip with lateral grooves is used, installed at a sma ...sh suppressor]] with side ports as seen on the FNC, [[FN CAL|CAL]] and FAL rifles; new production guns have a shorter, cone-shaped slotted flash suppressor.

In [[1955]], the [[Browning Arms Company]] introduced this pistol for the American market as the Model 1955. Made in Belgium, this model was virtually identic *[http://www.gunsworld.com/ French and World Guns, Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles Since 1800.]

The [[Ross Rifle Company|Ross Rifle Co.]] made sporting rifles from early in its production, most notably chambered in [[.280 Ross]], intr ...nd eventually landed his first contract in 1903 for 12,000 ''Mark I Ross'' rifles.

...as an [[automatic rifle]]. However, many regulatory agencies, such as the American [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|US BATFE]], consider ...secondary method of attack used in close combat. For example, arms such as rifles, muskets, and occasionally [[submachine gun]]s can have [[bayonet]]s affixe

...ls, or only shotguns, or only (pre-1964) Model '94 Winchester Lever-Action Rifles; for instance). * Design and build complete rifles by fitting stock barrels to stock receivers; fabricating or purchasing addi

...ridge(s) and the cocking of the hammer(s) were separate operations. While rifles evolved away quickly away from these early breech loading designs, the doub American inventor [[Daniel Myron LeFever]] was the first to develop a "hammerless" s

Not all grenades are thrown by hand. Several types are fired from rifles or purpose-designed [[grenade launcher]]s. For example, [[tear gas]] grenad In the American Civil War, both sides used crude hand grenades equipped with a plunger that

...y (Bundeswehr) now displayed interest and soon purchased a number of CETME rifles (7.62x51mm NATO chambering) for further testing. The CETME, known as the '' ...production G3 rifles differed substantially from more recent models; early rifles featured closed-type mechanical flip iron sights (with two settings), a lig

|type= [[lever-action]] [[rifle]] |wars= American Civil War, Indian Wars

...which used it, called the "caplock". The caplock appeared just before the American Civil War, and was quickly adopted by both sides as it was even simpler and Berdan primers are named after their American inventor, [[Hiram Berdan]] of New York who invented his first variation of

... [[November 26]], [[1926]]), born in Ogden, Utah, was an [[United States|American]] [[firearm]]s designer who developed many varieties of firearms, [[cartrid ...ented or made significant improvements to single-shot rifles, lever action rifles, and slide action firearms. His most significant contributions were in the

... was one of the final developments in the long line of [[Mauser]] military rifles. ...o an internal [[Magazine (firearm)|magazine]]. It was derived from earlier rifles, namely the Karabiner 98b, which in turn had been developed from the Mauser

in its name is for James Paris Lee, a Scottish-born American who sniper rifles! The typical conversion consists of rebarrelling,

...[Savage Arms|Savage]]- also produce lever-action rifles. While the term ''lever-action'' generally implies a repeating firearm, it is also sometimes applied to a ...000 were made, and it was adopted by the United States and used during the American Civil War, marking the first adoption of a removable-magazine-fed infantry-

...cludes some of the more notable Assault Rifles but also covers some Battle Rifles. ...0s, Izhmash designers developed the unified complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for domestic 7.62 x 39mm, 5.45 x 39mm cartridges as well as the 5

*[[American-180]] (US - SMG - .22 LR & .22 Short Magnum) **[[American SAR 180/275]] (US - Semi-Auto Carbine - .22 LR)

...led that many U.S. infantrymen (as many as 2/3) never actually fired their rifles in combat. By contrast, soldiers armed with rapid fire weapons (such as sub Existing rifles were poorly suited to real-world combat for both of these reasons. Although

... Patent Numbers]</ref>; he had previously been working on [[lever action]] rifles for Winchester such as the [[Winchester rifle#Winchester Model 1886|Winches ... Marines. It was also utilized by American forces during the Philippine–American War, and the Boxer Rebellion, where it proved to be accurate and reliable.<

... extent, in the Vietnam War. Most M1 rifles were issued to [[United States|American]] troops, though many were also lent to other nations. It is still used by ...rphy-Manning of 1911, and there were trials in 1916-8,<ref>Walter, John. ''Rifles of the World''. (Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2006), p.142, "Garand".</re

...today is also used in high-powered [[sniper rifle]]s and long range target rifles due to its excellent long range accuracy, [[external ballistics]] performan ...still in service as an anti-tank weapon, as originally intended.<ref>''The American Arsenal'', 2001. p. 224</ref> On most of the vehicles the weapon was moun

...tates Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60''') is a family of [[United States|American]] [[general purpose machine gun]]s firing [[7.62x51mm NATO]] [[cartridge]]s ...arms and Explosives]] (BATFE), they are treated as belt-fed semi-automatic rifles; however, individual state and local regulations still apply.

...hine guns, as well as manual volley guns, saw their first major use in the American Civil War. The [[Gatling gun]] and "coffee gun" both used manually-powered ... intended for use in [[side arm]]s (chiefly [[semi-automatic pistol]]s) or rifles; the difference between machine guns and autocannons is based on [[caliber]

...-round en-bloc clip, [[M14 rifle]]s 20-round magazine, AR-15/M16 series of rifles 20- and 30-round magazines.]] ...e rotary "tube" magazine found on many [[lever-action]] and semi-automatic rifles and [[shotgun]]s. A particular firearm may use multiple types of magazine,

...Marlin Firearms''' Company of North Haven, Connecticut manufactures Marlin Rifles. ..., it has been best known for its manufacture of high power, center fire, [[Lever-action|lever action]], and .22 caliber [[rimfire]] [[rifle]]s, as well as [[shotgu

...y. Savage still uses the Stevens brand today for a number of its low cost rifles and shotguns. ...f name=flayderman>Flayderman, Norm (1994). ''Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms''. DBI Books. p. 209.</ref> Business was slow into 1870, when it o

...ough the 1960s, it also produced a line of .22 caliber target and sporting rifles.<ref name="plinkster">[http://www.mossbergintl.com/pages/702plinkster.htm M ... manufacture a line of several [[lever-action|lever-]] and [[bolt-action]] rifles, including one youth model: the [[801 Half-pint Plinkster]].

...le examples being various grenade launchers and riot guns, and even some [[rifles]]. ...at Revolver.jpg|thumb|The [[LeMat Revolver]], an unusual revolver from the American Civil War era with 9 revolving chambers firing bullets and a center barrel

...iginally referred to the grooving, and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and [[shooting sports]]. ...ellulose]]), although other means such as compressed air are used in [[air rifles]], which are popular for vermin control, hunting small game, and casual sho

...libersAndTwists.html Products::Rifle Barrels::Calibers and Twists], Shilen Rifles, Inc.</ref> ...ade with 1 in 7 inches (180 mm) twist rates, the same as used for the M16. Rifles, which generally fire longer, smaller diameter bullets, will in general hav

... the standard caliber for its service rifles, further development of these rifles was discontinued (the British Army chose to adopt the 7.62 mm L1A1 SLR auto ... members, Enfield engineers re-chambered the rifles to the [[United States|American]] 5.56x45mm M193 cartridge. The newly redesigned 5.56 mm version of the XL6

...ich preceded it — most notably, the Soviet [[SVT-40|SVT]] series and the American [[M1 Garand rifle|M1 Garand]]. Contrary to popular belief it is not a moder ... drum magazines). The SKS also has a slightly longer barrel than AK-series rifles, with a fractionally higher muzzle velocity.

|variants= L1A1/C1/C1A1 <small>(Rifles)</small><br />L2A1/C2/C2A1 <small>([[Squad automatic weapon|SAWs]])</small> ...1)''' or in the USA as the '''"inch pattern" FAL'''.<ref>especially on the American surplus market</ref> It is a British Commonwealth derivative of the Belgian

|products= [[Rifles]], [[Shotguns]] ...They may be best-known for the [[Savage Model 99|Model 99]] [[hammerless]] lever-action rifle, no longer in production, and the very popular [[.300 Savage]] sporti

... company cut its entire product line down to only the most basic Model 110 rifles. The design has since succeeded in bringing the company back to life as one ...del 110 is the basis for the entire line Savage [[centerfire]] bolt action rifles, including the Models 11/111, 12, 14/114, 16/116, and Model 210 bolt action

...[[revolver]], a [[pump-action]] firearm, a [[bolt-action]] firearm, or a [[lever-action]] firearm, which require the shooter to manually [[chamber]] each successiv A few years later, American [[gunsmith]] [[John Moses Browning]] developed the first successful semi-au

Concerned over poor marksmanship during the American Civil War, veteran Union officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wi ...liated programs through groups such as 4-H, the Boy Scouts of America, the American Legion, U.S. Jaycees, NCAA, the [http://www.nssf.org/sctp/ Scholastic Clay

...g breech loading, [[double barreled shotgun]]s, pump-action, bolt-action, lever-action, and semi-automatic models. ...ges. The decline in military use of shotguns reversed in World War I, when American forces used 12-gauge pump action shotguns in close-quarters trench fighting

====Rifles==== ...ridge, chambered in trapdoor conversions of [[rifled musket]]s used in the American Civil War. The trapdoor mechanism continued with the adoption of the [[Spr

...rs [[Horace Smith]] and [[Daniel B. Wesson]] formed a company to produce a lever-action [[pistol]] nicknamed the ''[[Volcanic pistol]]''. The company became known ...ew company proved quite opportune for the partners, since the onset of the American Civil War five years later produced a great demand for Smith & Wesson's pro

The AUG was designed as a family of rifles that could be quickly adapted to a wide variety of roles with the change of ...nally threaded to take a [[Blank-firing adaptor|blank-firing attachment]]. Rifles equipped with 407 mm (16.0 in) and 508 mm (20.0 in) barrels are able to lau

...d around the beginning of the 20th century by a number of inventors. [[USA|American]] inventor [[Hiram Percy Maxim|Hiram Maxim]] is credited with inventing and Suppressors were regularly used by American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) agents during World War II, who favored

|The mainstay of the American Buffalo Hunter ...e|SVD Dragunov]] with Russia and the [[Puşca Semiautomată cu Lunetă|PSL rifles]] with many other countries.

...nd shrinks. Front focal plane reticles are slightly more durable, but most American users prefer that the reticle remains constant as the image changes size, s ...s by laboriously hand adjusting every military grade telescopic sight. The American high end telescopic sight manufacturer U.S. Optics Inc. <ref>[http://www.us

...1A]] magazines, [[M1911]] magazines, [[FN/FAL]]s and [[L1A1]]s, [[Mauser]] rifles, pre-1899 [[cartridge]] guns, and European Ammo Box Markings Translations. ...[Winchester Model 1890]] pump or [[Winchester Low Wall]] [[single shot]] [[rifles]] are ideal.)

'''Varmint rifle''' is an American English term for a relatively small-caliber firearm (or even a high-powered The varmint gun fills a design gap between small game rifles and [[rimfire]] firearms. [[.22LR]] (the most popular rimfire caliber) is s

...inchester, a rimmed [[.308 Winchester]], developed for use in lever-action rifles. A handloader can add a rim, by swaging a ring of metal onto a rimless case ...the best benchrest cartridge available. Chambered only in [[single-shot]] rifles due to its short, fat case and sharp shoulder angle, the 6 mm PPC is still

|type= [[lever-action]] [[shotgun]] |action= [[Lever-action]]

|type= [[Lever-action]] [[centerfire]] [[rifle]] |action= Lever-action

|type= [[Lever-action]] hunting [[rifle]] |action= Lever-action

|type= [[lever-action]] [[rifle]] |action= [[Lever-action]]

|products= [[rifles]], [[pistols]], [[shotguns]], [[ammunition]], accessories }}The '''Winchester Repeating Arms Company''' was a prominent [[United States|American]] maker of [[semi-automatic firearm|repeating firearms]] during the late ni

|action= [[Lever-action]] ... to the '''Winchester Model 1873''' or the '''[[Winchester Model 1894]]''' rifles.

...d. It is one of the few cartridges that are accepted by a large variety of rifles, as well as pistols. Virtually every manufacturer of cartridge firearms ma ...idges are capable of the same or better accuracy. A contributing factor in rifles is the transition of even a high-velocity cartridge projectile from superso

...r the first [[Smith and Wesson]] [[revolver]], the .22 Short was the first American metallic cartridge. The original loading was a 29 grain (1.88 g) bullet an [[Image:NAA22S.jpg|left|thumb|150px|[[North American Arms]] model NAA22S mini-revolver, chambered in .22 Short.]][[File:22short.

...the most popular sporting [[cartridges]] ever produced. It is the standard American deer cartridge, but its popularity is due more to the light, handy carbines ...]] [[caliber]]. This makes the Improved 30-30 pretty much obsolete for new rifles, but it is still a good modification for older Model 94's or 336's.

...power]] against the wooden shields of charging Moros during the Philippine-American War.<ref name="cotw">Barnes, Frank C. Ken Warner, editor. ''Cartridges of t ... reduced recoil, lower noise, and lower cost. A number of [[lever action]] rifles are also chambered in .357 Magnum and .38 Special.

... moot, and [[SAAMI]] compliant ammunition should fire from any handguns or rifles chambered for the .44 Magnum. ...ref name=woods>[http://www.chuckhawks.com/woods_rifles.htm Woods and Brush Rifles] Chuck Hawks</ref> Aggressive loads using slow burning powders maximize per

... and nearly universally legal for hunting except in areas where the use of rifles for hunting is completely prohibited. ...its limited ballistics, because of the many inexpensive good semiautomatic rifles available for it, the availability of inexpensive ammunition, and because o

...iginal AR-10 was built in relatively small numbers, with fewer than 10,000 rifles assembled. ...aLite's AR-10 entered the competition late, hurriedly submitting two AR-10 rifles in the fall of 1956 to the United States Army's Springfield Armory for test

...ced huge volumes of dense smoke when fired, a disadvantage compared to air rifles. ...[[Austria]] and other nations had special [[sniper]] detachments using air rifles. The Austrian 1780 model was named ''Windbüchse'' (literally "wind rifle"

...57 Mauser]], [[.303 British]], and [[7.62x54R]] made many smokeless powder rifles manufactured in the 1890s quite capable of accurate shooting at long distan ==American Civil War==

...nufacturer. He was the inventor of the [[Henry rifle]], the first reliable lever-action [[repeating rifle]]. ... the lever-action design on the battlefields of the Civil War, where Henry rifles were used alongside muzzle-loading [[rifled musket]]s such as the [[Springf

...a.com Beretta International] Beretta.com</ref> the last shipment of Type I rifles left Venice for Japan in a U-boat in 1942. After World War II, Beretta was actively involved in repairing the American [[M1 Garand rifle]]s given to Italy by the U.S. Beretta modified the M1 int

...ovements in design. By the mid 1800s and during the Civil War, bolt-action rifles were being used widely as cavalry weapons as well as for snipers. World War Today, bolt-action rifles are chiefly used as hunting rifles. These rifles can be used to hunt anything from vermin, to deer, to large game, especiall

... rifles were manufactured and used in the Battle of Brandywine, during the American Revolutionary War, but shortly after they were retired and replaced with th During the American Civil War many breech loaders would be fielded. The [[Sharps rifle]] used a

..., were developed from rifles, being essentially shortened versions of full rifles firing the same [[ammunition]], although usually at a lower [[velocity]]. T ...uns and thus harder to maneuver in close quarters. Like full-sized assault rifles, carbines have higher muzzle blast and recoil and may [[stopping power#Over

...ho invented the [[Spencer repeating rifle]] (one of the earliest models of lever-action rifle), ...ully automatic turret lathe,<ref>Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), ''English and American Tool Builders'', New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press, LCCN 1