Battle rifle
A battle rifle is a service rifle chambered to fire a fully powered cartridge.
The term "battle rifle" is a retronym created largely out of a need to better differentiate the intermediate cartridge, intermediate-powered assault rifles (e.g. the S ...
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full-powered rifles, full-length, fully automatic or semi-automatic rifles that have been adopted by a nation's military. The difference between a battle rifle and a
designated marksman rifle
A designated marksman rifle (DMR) is a modern telescopic sight, scoped high-Accuracy and precision, precision rifle used by infantrymen in the designated marksman (DM) role. It generally fills the engagement effective range, range gap between ...
is often only one of terminology with modifications to the trigger and accuracy enhancements; many of the weapons below are currently still in use, re-designated as DMRs. For intermediate calibers firearms (e.g.:
7.62×39mm
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List of assault rifles
An assault rifle is a rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge, a detachable magazine, and can switch between semi-automatic/fully automatic fire. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern armies. Some rifles listed ...
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automatic rifle
An automatic rifle is a type of autoloading rifle that is capable of fully automatic fire. Automatic rifles are generally select-fire weapons capable of firing in semi-automatic and automatic firing modes (some automatic rifles are capable of ...
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battle rifle
A battle rifle is a service rifle chambered to fire a fully powered cartridge.
The term "battle rifle" is a retronym created largely out of a need to better differentiate the intermediate cartridge, intermediate-powered assault rifles (e.g. the S ...
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List of weapons
This is an index of lists of weapons.
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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, flamethrowers, multipl ...
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List of rifles
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the proj ...
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List of machine guns
This is a list of machine guns and their variants.
The tables are sortable.
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*List of multiple-barrel firearms
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List of submachine guns
This is a list of submachine guns.
It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized. Weapons may fit in more than one category.
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List of assault rifles
An assault rifle is a rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge, a detachable magazine, and can switch between semi-automatic/fully automatic fire. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern armies. Some rifles listed ...
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List of bolt-action rifles
Bolt action, Bolt-action rifles are an evolution of the lever-action rifle, offering greater accuracy and stronger receiver (firearms), receivers. Bolt actions require the user to manually cycle the bolt (firearms), bolt after each round is fired ...
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List of straight-pull rifles
Straight-pull rifles differ from conventional bolt-action mechanisms in that the manipulation required from the user in order to chamber and extract a cartridge predominantly consists of a linear motion only, as opposed to a traditional turn-bolt ...
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List of pump-action rifles
A pump-action rifle is a rifle where the forend can be moved forward and backward in order to eject a spent round of ammunition and to chamber a new one. Pump-action mechanisms are often regarded as faster than a bolt action and somewhat faster ...
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List of semi-automatic rifles
A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that fires a single Cartridge (firearms), round each time the trigger (firearms), trigger is pulled, and uses some of the energy from that firing to load the next round. Semi-automatic rifles are also known as s ...
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List of multiple-barrel firearms
Below is a list of multiple-barrel firearms of all forms from around the world.Small Arms Illustrated, 2010
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List of pistols
This is a list of pistols. The list covers manually operated and semi-automatic/machine pistols:
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*List of firearms
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*List of machine guns
*List of multiple-barrel firearms
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List of revolvers
This is a list of single- and double-action revolvers, listed alphabetically by manufacturer.
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*List of assault rifles
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List of semi-automatic pistols A semi-automatic pistol is a type of handgun which utilizes the energy of the fired cartridge to cycle the action of the weapon and advance the next available cartridge into position for firing
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List of sniper rifles
This article is a listing of major precision rifle variants used by snipers from around the world.
A hunting or precision rifle equipped with a telescopic optic has been long described as a sniper rifle. Below is the list of precision rifles us ...
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List of shotguns
This article is a list of shotguns. Shotguns have traditionally fired iron, stone or lead shot stored in large shells that are normally loaded.
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* Assault shotgun
*Automatic shotgun
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battle rifle
A battle rifle is a service rifle chambered to fire a fully powered cartridge.
The term "battle rifle" is a retronym created largely out of a need to better differentiate the intermediate cartridge, intermediate-powered assault rifles (e.g. the S ...
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