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Century International Arms is an importer and manufacturer of firearms based in the United States. The company was founded in 1961 in St. Albans, Vermont , with offices in Montreal. In 1995, the company headquarters and sales staff moved to Boca Raton, Florida and to Delray Beach, Florida in 2004.
The Draco Pistol, or more commonly known as simply a Draco, named after the Dacian dragon-like battle banner, [1] [circular reference] is a series of Romanian-designed gas-operated semi-automatic pistols sold by Century International Arms. The weapon is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge with its design taken heavily after the AK-47.
The M76 is similar in concept to the Russian Dragunov SVD sniper/designated marksman rifle; a semi-automatic rifle using a full-power cartridge from a 10-round magazine. However, the M76 is closer to the AK-47/RPK design and Zastava's unlicensed M70 AK-derivative than the Dragunov SVD, similar to the Romanian PSL. Being derived from the AK ...
Zastava Arms: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Yugoslavia: 1949 SMG M50 Reising: Harrington & Richardson.45 ACP United States: 1941 SMG M56 submachine gun: Zastava Arms: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Yugoslavia: 1956 SMG M76: Smith & Wesson: 9×19mm Parabellum 9mm caseless United States: 1967-1974 SMG MAC-10: Military Armament Corporation.45 ACP United States: 1970 ...
In 1983, Mike Ruplinger and Kenneth Dominick started a company called MK Arms and acquired the rights to the Smith & Wesson M76. They began producing copies of it with the designation MK Arms MK760, and the US Navy, which still had some original M76s in its inventory, began purchasing replacement parts from MK Arms.
In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands. [2] [3] U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. [3] This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents."
M76 or M-76 may refer to: M-76 (Michigan highway), a former state highway in Michigan; Smith & Wesson M76, a variant of the Carl Gustav M/45 submachine gun; Valmet M76, a Finnish gas operated assault rifle; Zastava M76, a semi-automatic Yugoslav sniper rifle; Messier 76, a planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus; M76 Otter, an amphibious ...
The Zastava M91 is a semi-automatic designated marksman rifle chambered in 7.62×54mmR, developed and manufactured by Zastava Arms company in Kragujevac, Serbia.Like its predecessor, the Zastava M76, the M91 is internally based upon an elongated version of the AK-47 design, but the M91 shares more external similarities with the Dragunov sniper rifle than the M76.