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  2. Century International Arms - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Century Arms - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 30 May 2015, at 00:32 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply ...

  4. Red Army Standard Ammunition - Wikipedia

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    Red Army Standard Ammunition is a trademark associated with Century International Arms (CIA), an arms and ammunition corporation in Delray Beach, Florida, United States. [2] The official spelling of the brand's name is faux Cyrillic , written as RЭD АRMY STAИDARD.

  5. 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 ...

  6. FN FAL - Wikipedia

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    FAL rifles are still commercially available from a few domestic firms in semi-auto configuration: Enterprise Arms, DSArms, and Century International Arms. Century Arms created a semi-automatic version L1A1 with an IMBEL upper receiver and surplus British Enfield inch-pattern parts, while DSArms used Steyr-style metric-pattern FAL designs.

  7. Forearm (firearm component) - Wikipedia

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    It is used as a gripping surface to hold the gun steady and is usually made out of heat-insulating material such as wood or reinforced plastic. Near the front of the forearm there is often an underside sling swivel stud and sometimes also a barrel-band to secure the forearm to the barrel (as seen in the photo). [1] [2]

  8. Cartridge (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    7.62×39mm: The standard Soviet/ComBloc rifle round from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, this is easily one of the most widely distributed rounds in the world due to the distribution of the ubiquitous Kalashnikov AK-47 series. 7.62×51mm NATO: This was the standard NATO rifle round until its replacement by the 5.56×45mm. It is currently the ...

  9. Patch box (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Patch box from Jonathan Cilley's rifle. A patch box is a patch storage compartment on muzzleloader guns, usually built into the stock or butt of a rifle. [1] Patches were used to wrap a round shot lead ball projectile so that it fit snugly in the muzzle of the gun creating the necessary seal. It also allowed undersized balls to be used.