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Combination weapons. A combination weapon is a close-quarters gun hybrid combining the features of both a firearm and an edged melee weapon. [1] Examples of gun hybrids include knife/pistols and pistol/sword combinations.
210 km (130 mi) Maximum speed. 42 km/h (26 mph) The M2 medium tank, officially Medium Tank, M2, was a United States Army medium tank that was first produced in 1939 by the Rock Island Arsenal, just prior to the commencement of the Second World War in Europe. [3] Production was 18 M2 tanks, and 94 slightly improved M2A1 tanks, for a total of 112 ...
Antique Japanese matchlock ( tanegashima ), showing the firing mechanism. Note the V-shaped mainspring. The snap matchlock is a type of matchlock mechanism used to ignite early firearms. It was used in Europe from about 1475 to 1640, and in Japan from 1543 until about 1880, and was also largely used by Korea (Joseon) during the Imjin war to the ...
HK 32 (7.62×39 mm Prototype) HK 36 (4.6×36 mm Prototype) Heckler & Koch G11/Heckler & Koch ACR. WSG2000. Heckler & Koch was also a contractor for the XM29 and XM8 projects (both on hold as of 2005), as well as the related XM25. Heckler & Koch HK123 (5.62)
Matchlock. Early German musket with serpentine lock. A matchlock or firelock [1] is a historical type of firearm wherein the gunpowder is ignited by a burning piece of flammable cord or twine that is in contact with the gunpowder through a mechanism that the musketeer activates by pulling a lever or trigger with their finger.
All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [4] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article. Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 ...
List of firearms. 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 rifles ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a Democratic-backed ban in Maryland on assault-style rifles such as AR-15s, steering clear of the dispute while the ...