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Firearm: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. [e]- Cannon: Add brief definition or description
Small arms: A firearm, for sporting or military use, intended to be carried and operated by a single person [e]
Subtopics
- Air rifle: Add brief definition or description
- Submachine gun: A firearm that can shoot a pistol cartridge (i.e., less powerful than a rifle cartridge) in full-automatic mode [e]
- Thompson submachine gun: Add brief definition or description
- Heckler and Koch G5: Add brief definition or description
- Sten (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
- MG42 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
- M3 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
- PPSh41 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
- Reising submachine gun: Add brief definition or description
- Skorpion (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
- Anti-aircraft artillery: Add brief definition or description
- 20mm Oerlikon (autocannon): Add brief definition or description
- ZSU-23: Add brief definition or description
40mm Bofors (autocannon): An antiaircraft (AA) gun used on almost every major U.S. and U.K. warship of World War II. [e]- S-60: A Soviet 57mm anti-aircraft artillery piece, introduced in the 1950s and replaced by missiles as the division-level air defense weapon. [e]
- 88mm cannon: Add brief definition or description
- Rifle: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles [e]
- Assault rifle: Add brief definition or description
- AK-47: The world's most common assault rifle, firing a 7.62mm bullet, but with reduced-power propellant and larger magazines that comparable battle rifles using the same caliber; there are variants that use lighter bullets [e]
- M16 rifle: The primary U.S. infantry rifle, an assault rifle firing 5.56mm intermediate power ammunition; M4 (rifle) is the carbine (i.e., shorter-length) version [e]
- Infantry rifle: Add brief definition or description
- Assault rifle: Add brief definition or description
- Springfield rifle Model 1903: the main U.S. infantry rifle of the First World War, prized for accuracy, with limited use in WWII and continued value as a sporting weapon [e]
- M1 Garand rifle: Principal U.S. infantry rifle of World War II, firing .30-06 ammunition semi-automatically from an 8-round clip [e]
- Moisin-Nagant: Add brief definition or description
- Automatic rifle: Add brief definition or description
- Field artillery: Add brief definition or description
- Machine gun: Add brief definition or description
- Musket: Add brief definition or description
- Naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 57mm naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 76mm naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 4.5" naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 5"-38 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
- 5"-54 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
- 5"-62 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
- 8" naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 16"-50 caliber MK 7 naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- 18.1"-45 caliber naval gun: Add brief definition or description
- Pistol: Add brief definition or description
- Revolver: Add brief definition or description
- Shotgun: Add brief definition or description
