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2 unusual facts about automatic rifle


Self-loading rifle

Automatic rifle, a firearm that automatically loads and fires rounds, through the bullet's energy, as long as the trigger is held down it.

Semi-automatic rifle, a type of firearm which fires a single shot with the pull of a trigger, and uses the energy of that shot to chamber the next round


6.5×55mm

In Swedish service, the 6.5×55mm cartridge was used in the Swedish Mauser family of bolt action arms comprising the m/94 (Model 1894) carbine, m/96 (Model 1896) long rifle, m/38 (Model 1938) short rifle and m/41 (Model 1941) sniper rifle and the Ag m/42 semi-automatic rifle.

7.5×57mm MAS

1924 was the fusil-mitrailleur mle 1924, an automatic rifle sharing similarities with the B.A.R.

Colin Winchester

LR"?title=semi-automatic rifle">semi-automatic rifle fitted with a silencer and killed as he parked his police vehicle in the driveway of his house in Deakin, ACT.

FEG Model 58

This rifle is a semi-automatic version of the Russian AK-47, with a strange thumb-hole buttstock, helping to make it a legal hunting rifle in the United States.

I Was Only Nineteen

SLR: L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle (FN-FAL), standard 7.62 mm semi-automatic rifle issued to Australian infantrymen during the Vietnam War.

Kel-Tec SU-16

SU-16 refers to a series of semi-automatic rifles and carbines manufactured by Kel-Tec CNC Industries, Inc. of Cocoa, Florida, referred to in Kel-Tec's marketing as "Sport Utility rifles".

Pedersen rifle

The Pedersen Rifle, officially known in final form as the T1E3 rifle, was a United States semi-automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen that was made in small numbers for testing by the United States Army during the 1920s as part of a program to standardize and adopt a replacement for the M1903 Springfield.

Strathfield massacre

Leaving the knife in the body of the girl, he pulled a Chinese-made SKS semi-automatic rifle out of his duffel bag and shot around the café, killing several more people.

Tacoma Mall shooting

The gunman, Dominick Maldonado, entered the mall with a semi-automatic Norinco MAK-90 rifle and a pistol, injuring six before he instigated four armed kidnappings.


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Izhevsk

The city's Izhmash factory began manufacturing the AK-47 automatic rifle in 1948, and continues to produce modern variants of the design to this day.

K43

Gewehr 43, or Karabiner 43, a 7.92×57mm Mauser caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Nazi Germany during World War II

M96

Robinson Armament M96 Expeditionary, a semi-automatic rifle chambered for the 5.56x45mm NATO round

Maracay

It is also home to the government-owned ammunition and weapons factory (CAVIM) that produces the Venezuelan version of the FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger - Light Automatic Rifle) rifle and will produce the newly acquired AK-103s; as well as the ammunition for both models.

MOS 0311

The riflemen employ the M16A4 service rifle, the M4 carbine, the M203 grenade launcher, M249 squad automatic weapon (SAW), as well as the IAR "Infantry Automatic Rifle" the AT-4 and LAW rockets.

Pușcă Automată model 1986

The Pușcă Automată model 1986 (Automatic Rifle Model 1986, abbreviated PA md. 86 or simply md. 86) is the standard assault rifle used by the Romanian Military Forces and manufactured in Cugir, Romania by firm RomArm S.A. located in Bucharest, Romania.

Volkssturmgewehr 1-5

Best known is the Volkssturmgewehr by Gustloff which was however a gas-delayed blowback semi-automatic rifle.