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  2. Fiocchi Munizioni - Wikipedia

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    Fiocchi Munizioni was founded on 3 July 1876 in Lecco, Italy, by accountant Giulio Fiocchi. In 1876, Giulio Fiocchi took over the ammunition production part of a weapon and ammunition company already based in Lecco, which produced small- caliber ammunition.

  3. Harry Melville Pope - Wikipedia

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    At age 12 he used the bicycle shop tools to rifle a brass barrel for an air-powered dart gun. [2] He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1881 with a mechanical engineering degree, and worked for his Uncle at the Pope Manufacturing Company until 1904.

  4. List of multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    Bailey machine gun: Winchester Repeating Arms Company.32 rifle cartridge United States: 1874 Caldwell machine gun.303 British Australia: 1915 Colt Mk 11 cannon: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 20x110mm USN United States: EX-17 Heligun: Hughes Aircraft Company: 7.62x51mm NATO United States: 1962 Feldl gun: 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger

  5. Gun barrel - Wikipedia

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    A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns. It is the straight shooting tube, usually made of rigid high-strength metal , through which a contained rapid expansion of high-pressure gas(es) is used to propel a projectile out of the front end ( muzzle ) at a high velocity.

  6. Free-floating barrel - Wikipedia

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    Thor XM408 Windrunner Blaser R93 Tactical Bor rifle. A free-floating barrel is a firearm design used in precision rifles, particularly match grade benchrest rifles, to accurize the weapon system. With conventional rifles, the gun barrel rests in contact with the fore-end of the gunstock, sometimes along the whole length.

  7. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    A cartridge, [1] [2] also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of ...

  8. Fluting (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    This is most often the barrel of a rifle, though it may also refer to the cylinder of a revolver or the bolt of a bolt action rifle. In contrast to rifle barrels and revolver cylinders, rifle bolts are normally helically fluted, though helical fluting is sometimes also applied to rifle barrels.

  9. Polygonal rifling - Wikipedia

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    Conventional eight groove rifling on the left, and octagonal polygonal rifling on the right. Polygonal rifling (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ ɡ ə n əl / pə-LIG-ə-nəl) is a type of gun barrel rifling where the traditional sharp-edged "lands and grooves" are replaced by less pronounced "hills and valleys", so the barrel bore has a polygonal (usually hexagonal or octagonal) cross-sectional profile.