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A takedown gun (typically a takedown

rifle A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ( rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with ...

or takedown

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) is a

long gun A long gun is a category of firearms with long barrels. In small arms, a ''long gun'' or longarm is generally designed to be held by both hands and braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, which can be fired being held with a single ...

designed to be taken apart significantly reducing its length, making it easier to store, pack, transport and conceal. A variety of

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, and receiver designs have been invented to facilitate takedown. For example, the hinged design of many break-action firearms allows takedown. Some regular firearms can be modified to allow takedown after custom

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ing.

Rifles

American gun manufacturers including

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Ruger Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., better known by the shortened name Ruger, is an American firearm manufacturing company based in Southport, Connecticut, with production facilities also in Newport, New Hampshire; Mayodan, North Carolina; and Presco ...

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, and

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have made takedown rifles since the late 1800s. Some early examples include the

Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle The Browning 22 Semi-Auto rifle, also known as the Semi Automatic 22 or SA-22, is a takedown rifle produced by FN Herstal based on a John Browning patent. The rifle is currently produced by Browning as the Semi-Auto 22. Production began in 19 ...

, Remington Model 24 and

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made by

Fabrique Nationale Fabrique Nationale Herstal (), trading as FN Herstal and often referred to as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a leading firearms manufacturer based in Herstal, Belgium. It is currently the largest exporter of military small arms in Europe. ...

and

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. Many militaries in the early 20th century also experimented with takedown systems, particularly for the use by

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. An example of this being the Japanese experimental TERA Rifles.

Shotguns

Most single barrel and double barrel shotguns readily break down into separate buttstock, barrel and forestock and are often transported cased as takedown guns. Among repeating shotguns, the Winchester Model 97 and Model 12 shotguns were factory made as takedown guns. Savage also makes a series of takedown over/under rifle/shotgun combination guns.

Survival guns

Survival guns such as the

ArmaLite AR-7 The ArmaLite AR-7 Explorer is a semi-automatic firearm in .22 Long Rifle caliber, developed in 1959 from the AR-5 that was adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and aircrew survival weapon. The AR-7 was adopted and modified by the Israeli Air ...

may be disassembled and its barrel, action and magazines stored within its plastic butt-stock. This lightweight , .22 caliber (5.6 mm),

semi-automatic rifle A semi-automatic rifle is an autoloading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger, and uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case and load another cartridge into the chamber. For comparison, a bolt-act ...

measures overall when assembled, when disassembled and can even float. Although the AR-7 was designed as a pilot and aircrew survival weapon, it is commonly used by target shooters and backpackers, and is frequently stowed away in vehicles and boats.The AR-7 exotic weapons system, Paperback: 63 pages Paladin Press (1982), {{ISBN, 0873642422

References

* Carmichel, Jim

Outdoor Life. Feb 1, 2004. Accessed 2008-06-16. Firearm construction Rifles Shotguns Takedown gun

Rifles

Shotguns

Survival guns

See also

References