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  • ...mid-1942, with initial priority given to troops in the European Theater of Operations. ...e made by other companies. The largest producer was the Inland division of General Motors, but many others were made by contractors as diverse as IBM, the Und
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  • |type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ...an]] [[FN MAG]] 58 ('''''M'''itrailleuse d`'''A'''ppui '''G'''énéral'', "General Purpose Machine Gun") machine gun.
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  • |type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ... Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60''') is a family of [[United States|American]] [[general purpose machine gun]]s firing [[7.62x51mm NATO]] [[cartridge]]s from a disi
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  • ...medium]]", "[[Heavy machine gun|heavy]]" or "[[general purpose machine gun|general purpose]]", even the lightest machine guns tend to be substantially larger ... in modern ground combat is to provide [[suppressive fire]] on an opposing force's position, forcing the enemy to take cover and reducing the effectiveness
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  • ...ng that cannot be admitted. ... In the urban industrial society of today a general right to bear efficient arms so as to be enabled to resist oppression by th ...d unorganized militias and their relationship to the Second Amendment. The general question here is, ''"Does the right pertain to only organized, well-regulat
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  • ... through space by the exertion of a force, which ceases after launch. In a general sense, even a football or baseball may be considered a projectile. It can c ==Motive force==
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  • SIG also produced a [[machine gun]], the [[SIG 710-3|MG 710]] which was a [[general purpose machine gun]] chambered in [[7.62x51mm NATO]] and based on the Germ ...asing sales nearly 50% since 2005. SIG Sauer has recently tripled its work force and invested eighteen million dollars into state-of-the-art manufacturing f
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  • ... Army]], [[New Zealand Army]], [[Rhodesian Army]], [[South African Defence Force]] and the [[British Armed Forces]].<ref>''Small Arms Illustrated'', 2010</r ...late 1990. Some Australian Army units deployed overseas on UN peacekeeping operations in Namibia, the Western Sahara and Cambodia still used the L1A1 SLR and the
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  • *Shotguns are, in general, not as heavily regulated by legislation as handguns are (and are thus easi ...gally it would fall into a [[Machine gun|different category]]. Amongst the general populace, any gun that fires shotgun shells could be considered a shotgun.
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  • ...rmish" in this era denotes a clash of small scope between these forces. In general, a skirmish was a limited combat, involving troops other than those of the ...a lone gunman, undetectable, on the hunt".<ref>[http://www.boomershoot.org/general/ScaryWords.htm Assault Weapons - Sniper Rifles] Joe Huffman, February 7, 20
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  • ...er rifles, and they have played an increasingly important role in military operations ever since. ...Plaster|Maj. John L. Plaster]], 1993. The information about counter-sniper operations describes techniques for identifying snipers amongst groups of other soldie
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  • Colonel Shepard: "It was called the Sten by the then Director General of Artillery. The S' was from my name, the T from Mr. Turpin who was my ...cilities making Thompsons. In order to rapidly equip a sufficient fighting force to counter the Axis threat, the [[Royal Small Arms Factory]], Enfield, was
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  • ...Colonial War, South African Border War, Rhodesian Bush War, anti-guerrilla operations in Colombia and the Philippines ...First introduced to IDF special forces in 1954, the weapon was placed into general issue two years later. The first Uzis were equipped with a short, fixed wo
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  • ...or other equipment worn on his body. However, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's office has issued a legal opinion that the .50 BMG and even the [[Raufoss ... for a weapon of its size owing to the barrel assembly that itself absorbs force, moving inward toward the receiver against large springs with every shot.
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  • ... to 1,450 ft/s (440 m/s) from a four-inch (102 mm) barrel. Offsetting this general slight disadvantage in performance is the fact that semi-automatic pistols While the [[Canadian]] Forces Special Operations unit Joint Task Force 2 ''reportedly'' uses [[P226]]'s chambered in .357 SIG, this cannot be conf
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  • The AHSA web site indicates four general programs:<ref>[http://www.huntersandshooters.com/index.php?option=com_conte ...achusetts based group Stop Handgun Violence, a group that has been a major force in passing some of the most Draconian state gun laws in the nation."
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  • ...h gunpowder propellent used on the battlefield is on January 28, 1132 when General Han Shizhong of the Song Dynasty used escalade and Huochong to capture a ci ...]]—was introduced to remove them. Gustavus Adolphus is identified as the general who reintroduced cannon to the battlefield—pushing the development of muc
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  • <div style="padding-left: 4em; text-indent: -3em">'''NOTE:''' In general practice, you're not likely to start your reloading process without already ...it the piece you cut off so it will slide on a bullet with a few pounds of force. Seat a bullet into the case and chamber the round to make sure the bullet
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  • |wars= World War II, Korean War, Suez Crisis, Falklands War, Anti-guerilla operations in Indonesia, Gulf war, Northern Ireland, Mau Mau Uprising, 1948 Arab-Israe The Bren was replaced as the section LMG by the [[L7 machine gun|L7]] [[general purpose machine gun]] (GPMG), a heavier [[Belt (ammo)|belt-fed]] weapon. Th
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  • ...lly ones -- brings the law into disrepute once the errors are brought into force. ...a new set of Regulations that were made in Mar 1998, but did not come into force until 01 Dec 1998.
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