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  2. Savage Mark II - Wikipedia

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    Mark II F: Basic model featuring a synthetic stock [3] Mark II G: Similar to the F but with a wooden stock [4] Mark II TR: Target shooting oriented model with a heavy barrel to be optimized for competitive shooting. [5] Mark II BSEV: Features a bull barrel and an adjustable stock [6] Mark II BRJ: Multi colored wood stock and spiral fluted ...

  3. Savage Arms - Wikipedia

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    The Sporter and Target Sporter have heavy barrels and gray wood-laminate stocks. The Thumbhole has a heavy fluted barrel and a gray wood-laminate thumbhole stock. [27] The A17 was named Rifle of the Year in the NRA Publications' 2016 Golden Bullseye Awards. [28] A22; The A22 is a semi-automatic rimfire rifle that uses the .22 Long Rifle ammunition.

  4. Pillory - Wikipedia

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    The 17th-century perjurer Titus Oates in a pillory. The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, used during the medieval and renaissance periods for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. [1]

  5. Stevens Arms - Wikipedia

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    The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs. By 1902, they were advertising themselves as "the largest producers of sporting arms in the world". [1] They were purchased by New England Westinghouse on May 28, 1915, and again by Savage Arms on April 1, 1920. [2]

  6. Who Made America’s Weapons During WW2? - AOL

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    Notable weapons: M1 Thompson (Tommy Gun), Savage Arms M720 Shotgun Savage Arms, founded in the late 1800s, primarily manufactures rifles and shotguns. Perhaps its most iconic is the Tommy Gun.

  7. Stocks - Wikipedia

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    The stocks, pillory, and pranger each consist of large wooden boards with hinges; however, the stocks are distinguished by their restraint of the feet. The stocks consist of placing boards around the ankles and wrists, whereas with the pillory, the boards are fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck, forcing the punished to stand.

  8. Stock (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing ...

  9. Meriden Firearms Co. - Wikipedia

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    Meriden introduced the Model 15 slide-action .22 rifle based on Savage patents in the fall of 1912. The main plant of the company was sold to New England Westinghouse in 1916 (which soon resold it to Colt), and in 1918 due to the end of WWI Sears closed the Meriden Firearms Company.