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  2. Clip (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    An en bloc clip of 8×56mmR is inserted into a Steyr M95 carbine.. Several rifle designs utilize an en bloc clip for loading. With this design, both the cartridges and clip are inserted as a unit into a fixed magazine within the rifle, and the clip is usually ejected or falls from the rifle upon firing or chambering of the last round.

  3. List of clip-fed firearms - Wikipedia

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    Straight-pull rifle 7.5×55mm Swiss Switzerland Stripper clip with detatchable 6-round box magazine. Ruger Mini-14: Semi-automatic rifle Assault rifle .222 Remington.223 Remington.300 AAC Blackout 5.56×45mm NATO 7.62×39mm 6.8 SPC United States Stripper clip with detatchable 20/30-round box magazines. T48 rifle: Battle rifle 7.62×51mm NATO

  4. Stripper clip - Wikipedia

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    Stripper clip loading for a 7.92×57mm Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle. A device practically identical to a modern stripper clip was patented by inventor and treasurer of United States Cartridge Company De Witt C. Farrington in 1878, while a rarer type of the clip now known as Swiss-type (after the Schmidt–Rubin) frame charger was patented in 1886 by Louis P. Diss of Remington Arms. [3]

  5. Magazine (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    This light machine gun was fed by standard 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka stripper clips that were used by riflemen armed with the Type 38 bolt action rifle. The hopper is located on the left side of the receiver and held 6 of the 5-round clips, for a total of 30 rounds of ammunition.

  6. List of the United States Army munitions by supply catalog ...

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    The caliber of ammunition – .45 (.45 pistol or submachinegun - cartons), .30C (.30 Carbine – cartons), .30R (.30 Rifleclips or cartons), .30M (.30 Machinegun – belted or linked ammo), or .50 (Machinegun - linked or cartons) – was embossed in raised letters and numbers on the metal lid so they could be identified by touch under low ...

  7. .276 Pedersen - Wikipedia

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    When first recommended for adoption, M1 Garand rifles were chambered for the .276 Pedersen, which held ten rounds in its unique en-bloc clips. [1] The .276 Pedersen was a shorter, lighter and lower pressure round than the .30-06, which made the design of an autoloading rifle easier than the long, powerful .30-06.

  8. List of rifles - Wikipedia

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    A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.

  9. Belt (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    An ammunition belt is a firearm device used to package and feed cartridges, typically for rapid-firing automatic weapons such as machine guns. Belt-fed systems minimize the proportional weight of the ammunition apparatus to the entire weapon system, and allow high rates of continuous fire without needing frequent magazine changes.