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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.
The preparatory command before present arms is Eyes on the Right and/or Eyes on the Left or Eyes on the Front. [8] [9] With a rifle , present arms is carried out in two steps: [10] Holding the rifle with the right hand, personnel will put the hand up to the head in a vertical position.
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifle and any other variants.
5.56×45mm NATO United States: 1986 Frommer semiautotic rifle [1] Rudolf Frommer: Fusil Automatique Modèle 1917: Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Tulle(MAT) for Mle 1917 Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne(MAS) for Mle 1918. 8×50mmR Lebel France: 1917 General Liu rifle: Hanyang Arsenal Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool: 7.92×57mm Mauser China: 1914
This is a list of firearm cartridges which have bullets in the 10 millimetres (0.39 in) to 10.99 millimetres (0.433 in) caliber range. Length refers to the cartridge case length. OAL refers to the overall length of the cartridge. All measurements are in mm (in).
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns.
6.5×55mm.300 Winchester Magnum.308 Winchester.30-06 Springfield.338 Winchester Magnum.375 Ruger 7.62x39mm 6.5mm Grendel: 1979 Japan: IOF .30-06 sporting rifle.30-06 Springfield: 2007 India: IOF .315 sporting rifle: 8mm BSA (8x50mmR Mannlicher) 1956 India: Ishapore 2A1 rifle: 7.62x51mm NATO: 1962 India: Jungle carbine.303 British: 1944 United ...
Straight-pull rifles differ from conventional bolt action mechanisms in that the manipulation required from the user in order to chamber and extract a cartridge predominantly consists of a linear motion only, as opposed to a traditional turn-bolt action where the user has to manually rotate the bolt for chambering and primary extraction.