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4 days ago · machine gun, automatic weapon of small calibre that is capable of sustained rapid fire. Most machine guns are belt-fed weapons that fire from 500 to 1,000 rounds per minute and will continue to fire as long as the trigger is held back or until the supply of ammunition is exhausted.
3 days ago · This is a list of machine guns and their variants . Name. Manufacturer. Image. Cartridge. Feed. Country. Year. 7,62 ITKK 31 VKT.
2 days ago · The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun, which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
3 days ago · The MP5 is one of the most widely used submachine guns in the world, having been adopted by over forty nations and numerous militaries, police forces, intelligence agencies, security organizations, paramilitaries, and non-state actors.
Jun 28, 2024 · A Gatling gun is a hand-driven machine gun that was the first to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was created about 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling, an American inventor. The name “Gatling gun” continues to be applied to some modern weapons.
Jun 28, 2024 · MG42, German general-purpose machine gun, used as a standard weapon by many armies around the world. The MG42 was designed in Germany in 1938, and it was placed in action on all fronts by mid-1942. Its original calibre was 7.92 mm, but when West Germany entered the North Atlantic Treaty.
Jun 14, 2024 · That law defines a “machinegun” to include “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a...
