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... single shot and semi auto centre fire rifles and semi auto military style rifles. ...ing registration:''' Includes single shot rimfire rifles and small calibre rifles.

... A Comparison of Results from Two Recent National Surveys''. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 455. (May 1981)</ref><ref name="CN ...rotection. The importance of guns also derives from the role of hunting in American culture, which remains popular as a sport in the country today.<ref name="a

...ht|A modern [[black powder substitute]] for [[muzzleloader|muzzleloading]] rifles in FFG size]]'''Gunpowder''' (also called '''black powder''') is a pyrotech ...sed in large bore rifles and small cannon though FFg (medium and smallbore rifles), FFFg (pistols), and FFFFg (smallbore, short pistols and priming [[flintlo

...ls, or only shotguns, or only (pre-1964) Model '94 Winchester Lever-Action Rifles; for instance). * firearm '''model''' (semi-automatic? [[full automatic]]? [[caliber]]?)

Some handgun subtypes include [[single-shot]] pistols, [[revolver]]s, [[semi-automatic pistol]]s, and [[Automatic firearm|fully automatic]], or [[machine pistol]] ...refer to both the [[Enfield Revolver]] and the later [[Browning Hi-Power]] semi-automatic.

...my). In 1991 in the wake of the cancellation of the [[HK G41|G41]] and G11 rifles, H&K was bought by British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance division. Their major ...">[http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/army_rifle_070715/ M4 to face new rifles in dust-chamber test]</ref> The XM8 and FN SCAR had the fewest failures in

...ral modifications including the ability to fire from a closed bolt in both semi-automatic and automatic firing modes, a new perforated sheet-metal handguard (the fol ...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 ''

...ed and manufactured by [[Heckler & Koch]]. It is a modified version of the American [[M4 carbine]] with many changes, most notably a new gas operating system f ...f>[http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/army_rifle_070715/ M4 to face new rifles in dust-chamber test] armytimes.com</ref> The XM8 scored the best, with onl

... bullets, especially those intended for use at high velocity in centerfire rifles, are ''jacketed'', i.e. a portion of the lead-cored bullet is wrapped in a ...States military, for example, uses hollow-point bullets in some [[sniper]] rifles for their exceptional accuracy at long ranges, and believes that the hollow

...ange of regional issues around the world, including drug violence in South American countries. ... many kinds of small arms, including [[Semi-automatic rifle|semi-automatic rifles]] and [[Handgun|handguns]]<ref name=kopel-byu /><ref name=iansa-national-re

In [[1976]], Cooper founded the ''American Pistol Institute''{API) in Paulden, Arizona (later the [[Gunsite Training C .... Steyr, Ruger, Savage, and several other gun makers now manufacture Scout rifles that roughly match Cooper's specifications, but most lack auxiliary iron si

... figure in the development of modern [[Automatic firearm|automatic]] and [[semi-automatic firearm]]s and is credited with 128 [[Firearm|gun]] patents — his first w ...Browning Automatic Rifle|Browning Automatic Rifle]], and a ground-breaking semi-automatic [[shotgun]], the [[Browning Auto-5]].

...makes it almost as lethal as a fully [[automatic firearm]] such as assault rifles. The impression that Sugarmann originated the term may stem from a 1988 stu ...upled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a

... 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

... also ''Knight's Manufacturing Company'') is an [[United States of America|American]] [[firearm]]s and firearms parts manufacturer. ...pular firearms, including the American [[M16 Rifle|M16]]/[[M4 Carbine|M4]] rifles and the popular [[Heckler & Koch MP5]] series sub-machine guns. The RIS/RAS

...899 Carbine<br/>M1899 Constable Carbine<br/>''[[#Norwegian Krag-Jørgensen rifles|Norwegian Krags]]:''<br/>M1894 Rifle<br/>M1895 Carbine<br/>M1897 Carbine<br ...e Krag-Jørgensen action was its [[magazine (firearms)]]. While many other rifles of its era used an integral box magazine, the magazine of the Krag-Jørgens

...e= 550 yd (503 m)<ref>http://enfieldrifles.profusehost.net/ti4.htm Enfield Rifles.Net</ref> ...ed the earlier [[Martini-Henry]], [[Martini-Enfield]], and [[Lee-Metford]] rifles, and although officially replaced in the UK with the [[FN-FAL#United Kingdo

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

...in Firearms|Marlin]] and [[Savage Arms|Savage]]- also produce lever-action rifles. While the term ''lever-action'' generally implies a repeating firearm, it ...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-

==Automatic and semi-automatic rifles== *Flieger-Selbstlader-Karabiner 15 ([[Mondragon]]) Former Mondragon rifles built in Switzerland (World War I only)