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...ttp://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/uniforms_firearms/firearms/98k/k98index.htm Firearms of the Wehrmacht - Mauser Karabiner 98]</ref> ...scopic sight body for unimpaired operation of the three-position [[safety (firearms)|safety catch lever]]. This ergonomic problem was solved by mounting the te

* Swedish [[AK5|Ak 5]] system, derived from the Belgian FN FNC assault rifle ..., US/German [[HK-416]], US/Belgian [[M249]] Squad Automatic Weapon, and US/Belgian [[FN SCAR|Mk. 16 SCAR-L]]

*[[MP 740]](b) (captured Belgian Mi. Schmeisser-Bayard Modelle 34) *Gewehr 261 (Belgian Fusil 1889 Mauser in 7.65 mm)

...|Belt-fed]] weapons or rifles with very limited capacity fixed [[Magazine (firearms)|magazine]]s are also generally not considered assault rifles. This list i | colspan="5"| Ak 5 is the Swedish version of [[Belgium| Belgian]] [[FN FNC]]. It is the main [[service rifle]] of the Swedish Armed Forces

*[[Belgian M1871 Trooper's Revolver]] (Belgium - Revolver - 11 x 17.5 mm French Ordnan *[[Belgian M1878 Officer's Revolver]] (Belgium - Revolver - 9 x 23 mmR Nagant)

The M16A2 entered service in the 1980s and fired the NATO standard Belgian-designed M855/M856 cartridge. The M16A2 is a select fire rifle capable of s ...lt's purchase of the nomenclature from Armalite), are popular recreational firearms in the United States, with versions manufactured by a handful of larger man

A modern manufacturer of firearms has produced a semi-automatic version of the Browning Automatic Rifle known *Variant produced by FN for Belgian military, chambered for the 7.92x57mm cartridge and featuring a pistol grip

...ice during the 1960s, when the M1 carbine would be replaced by the 5.56 mm firearms — the M16 and its carbine variants, such as the [[Colt Commando|XM177/CAR ...to be suited to the kind of operation the two British, two French, and one Belgian Regiment carried out. It was handy enough to parachute with, and, in additi

... in order to manufacture the 150,000 Mauser Model 89 rifles ordered by the Belgian Government. ...n the same configuration. Their rifles were chambered for the [[7.65x 53mm Belgian Mauser|7.65x53mm Mauser]] cartridge, and were virtually identical to the Sp

... the firearms designers of the day. Soon there was a host of new automatic firearms that used this concept, such as the [[Borchardt pistol]], the [[Cei-Rigotti The Belgian name ''Mitrailleuse d'Appui General'', or [[General purpose machine gun|Gen

...rifle in 1889 alongside a 3.5-line design by [[Léon Nagant]] (a [[Belgium|Belgian]]). When trials concluded in 1891, all units which tested the rifles indica ...1919. The rifles still in the US ended up being primarily used as training firearms for the US Army. Some were used to equip US National Guard, SATC and ROTC u

...1A1 SLR automatic rifle, which is a license-built version of the [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[FN FAL]]). ...esign changes noted, including adopting the rifle for use with the heavier Belgian SS109 version of the 5.56x45mm cartridge and improving reliability, the rif

...]] (''Fusil Automatique Léger'' ["Light Automatic Rifle"] produced by the Belgian armaments manufacturer [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal]] [FN]). The L1A1 is ...sp;mm intermediate cartridge]], the UK, believing that if they adopted the Belgian FAL and the American 7.62 NATO cartridge that the United States would do th

...itous Soviet-designed [[AKM]]; the Israeli [[Galil]]; some variants of the Belgian [[FN FAL]]; the Chinese [[QBZ-95]]; and the German [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3]] ...e fire weapons are regulated in the [[United States]] under the [[National Firearms Act]] of 1934; their new manufacture for the civilian market was prohibited

...il operation. See [[Gas-Operated]] article for details on gas operation of firearms. A semi-automatic pistol will fire only one shot per trigger pull, in contr ...vilians except (in the US) for those civilians holding a Class III Federal firearms license. The Mauser Model 712 "Schnellfeuer" (German for "rapid fire"), a l

...nturies, so too did the technique of loading rounds. First, breech-loading firearms, like the Prussian [[Needle gun]] of the mid-18th century came to prominenc ... rifles such as the Soviet [[AK-47]], the American [[M16 rifle|M-16]], the Belgian [[FN FAL]], the German [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3]] and the Swiss [[Sturmgewehr

...ogether in a single unit for easier loading of a [[firearm]]'s [[magazine (firearms)|magazine]]. A stripper clip is used only for loading the magazine and is n Many bolt action rifles have used stripper clips, starting with the 1889 Belgian Mauser. Mauser, who had also been experimenting with box magazines and clip

James Wesley Rawles is the author of numerous firearms FAQs on topics including: [[AR-15]] [[magazines]], [[M1 Carbine]] magazines ...here are the answers to the questions that I most commonly get on pre-1899 firearms. [[#Do you have a list of "cut-off" serial numbers for determining if my g

...ent [[United States|American]] maker of [[semi-automatic firearm|repeating firearms]] during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...[T.C. Johnson]], was instrumental in the development of these self-loading firearms and indeed went on to assist with the design of the Winchester [[Winchester

* [[April 4]] &mdash; Cost of the [[Canadian Firearms Program]] more than triples. The tab for implementing the [[long gun regis * [[July 11]] &mdash; The [[Belgian]] government endorsed delivery of 5,500 [[Minimi]] [[machine guns]] to the