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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army.The gun was operated by a three-man crew but typically required more men to move and operate it: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the others helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and spare parts. [18]
The A model “featured forward assist devices found on the Colt 603 rifles.” The B model had a “four-position selector with burst fire as an option.” The M1 model, designed for sustained automatic fire, carried a heavy profile barrel. Colt developed a 30-round magazine for the weapon, and a bipod was designed for added stability. [6]
Colt 933; Colt ACR; Colt Advanced Piston Carbine; Colt AR-15; Colt Automatic Rifle; Colt Canada C7 and C8; Colt Canada C20 DMR; Colt CM901; Colt IAR6940; Colt Lightning rifle; Colt MARS; Colt model 1839 carbine; Colt's New Model revolving rifle; Colt ring lever rifles; Colt-Burgess rifle
The Chauchat in 8mm Lebel was also extensively used in 1917–18 by the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.), where it was officially designated as the "Automatic Rifle, Model 1915 (Chauchat)". A total of 262,000 Chauchats were manufactured between December 1915 and November 1918, including 244,000 chambered for the 8mm Lebel service ...
The Vickers–Berthier Light Machine Gun has a 30-round box magazine and a bipod stand, and is sometimes mistaken for the Bren as both used a similar curved magazine to accommodate the rimmed .303 British cartridge. [8] It was slightly heavier, at 24 pounds (11 kg), than the Bren's 22 lb (10.0 kg).
GunBroker.com was the primary sponsor of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Jason White, [12] driver of the No. 23 Truck from 2008-2012. [13] GunBroker.com partnered with USA Shooting for the Olympics. Several lawmakers called out to the Olympics to cut ties with GunBroker.com because of Nazi memorabilia listed for sale on GunBroker.com. [14]
The Lithgow Small Arms Factory was known to produce their single shot models 1A and 1B as well as their Model 12 repeater under the Slazenger brand during the 1960s. [1] The factory was first "corporatised" as Australian Defence Industries by the Hawke government, then later sold in 2006.
The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. . The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the ...