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Another Lewis gun was found in an IRA arms dump outside Kildare in January 1990. [78] [79] Besa machine gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Medium machine gun United Kingdom: Four Besa machine guns found in IRA arms dump outside Kildare in January 1990. [78] [79] Bren gun.303 British: Light machine gun United Kingdom: Widespread usage in 1970s. [5]
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
M2 Browning .5 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) United States Belgium: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×99mm NATO (.50 BMG) The M2 Heavy Machine Gun entered service in the 1970s. It is in use with all service branches and a number of Army Corps. The Infantry use it in the sustained fire role, air defense role and mounted on its MOWAG APCs.
Soviet Stechkin APS and suppressed APB select-fire machine pistols, introduced into Soviet service in 1951. A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns. [1] The Austrians introduced the world's first machine pistol, the Steyr Repetierpistole M1912/P16, during World War ...
Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940P: A prototype variant that incorporated an external piston system in place of the direct gas impingement. It was a third model designed by Phil Hinckley but was never submitted into the US Marines' IAR Program. [1] Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940E-SG: A variant designed specifically for the Singapore Army ...
A variant named L2A1/C2A1 (C2), meant to serve as a light machine gun in a support role, is also capable of fully automatic fire. Differences from the L1A1/C1 include a heavy barrel, squared front sight (versus the "V" on the semi-automatic models), a handguard that doubles as a foldable bipod , and a larger 30-round magazine although it could ...
In June 1883 Hiram Maxim filed his first patent to do with automatic firearms covering semi-automatic and fully automatic Winchester and Martini-Henry rifles as well as an original automatic rifle and blowback- and recoil-operated machine guns, both single and multi-barrelled. [1]
The fully automatic versions are post-May 1986 machine guns, and may only be transferred to available to persons and agencies permitted to have post-May 1986 machine guns under the National Firearms Act. The semi-automatic versions are available for civilian purchase to qualified buyers.