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Parent topics

•  Firearm: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. ^[e]
• Cannon: Add brief definition or description
•  Small arms: A firearm, for sporting or military use, intended to be carried and operated by a single person ^[e]

Subtopics

• Air rifle: Add brief definition or description
•  Submachine gun: A firearm that can shoot a pistol cartridge (i.e., less powerful than a rifle cartridge) in full-automatic mode ^[e]
  • Thompson submachine gun: Add brief definition or description
  • Heckler and Koch G5: Add brief definition or description
  • Sten (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
  • MG42 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
  • M3 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
  • PPSh41 (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
  • Reising submachine gun: Add brief definition or description
  • Skorpion (submachine gun): Add brief definition or description
• Anti-aircraft artillery: Add brief definition or description
  • 20mm Oerlikon (autocannon): Add brief definition or description
  • ZSU-23: Add brief definition or description
  •  40mm Bofors (autocannon): An antiaircraft (AA) gun used on almost every major U.S. and U.K. warship of World War II. ^[e]
  •  S-60: A Soviet 57mm anti-aircraft artillery piece, introduced in the 1950s and replaced by missiles as the division-level air defense weapon. ^[e]
  • 88mm cannon: Add brief definition or description
•  Rifle: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles ^[e]
  • Assault rifle: Add brief definition or description
    •  AK-47: The world's most common assault rifle, firing a 7.62mm bullet, but with reduced-power propellant and larger magazines that comparable battle rifles using the same caliber; there are variants that use lighter bullets ^[e]
    •  M16 rifle: The primary U.S. infantry rifle, an assault rifle firing 5.56mm intermediate power ammunition; M4 (rifle) is the carbine (i.e., shorter-length) version ^[e]
  • Infantry rifle: Add brief definition or description
    • .303 Lee-Enfield: Add brief definition or description
•  Springfield rifle Model 1903: the main U.S. infantry rifle of the First World War, prized for accuracy, with limited use in WWII and continued value as a sporting weapon ^[e]
  • •  M1 Garand rifle: Principal U.S. infantry rifle of World War II, firing .30-06 ammunition semi-automatically from an 8-round clip ^[e]
    • Moisin-Nagant: Add brief definition or description
  • Automatic rifle: Add brief definition or description
    • Bren (automatic rifle): Add brief definition or description
    • Chauchat: Add brief definition or description
    •  Browning Automatic Rifle: Add brief definition or description
• Field artillery: Add brief definition or description
  • 130mm gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 155mm howitzer: Add brief definition or description
  • 8" howitzer: Add brief definition or description
  • 175mm gun: Add brief definition or description
•  Machine gun: Add brief definition or description
  •  M60 machine gun: Add brief definition or description
  •  M240 machine gun: Add brief definition or description
  •  M249 machine gun: Add brief definition or description
  •  M2 machine gun: Add brief definition or description
  • Dshka (machine gun): Add brief definition or description
•  Musket: Add brief definition or description
•  Naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 57mm naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 76mm naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 4.5" naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  •  5"-38 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 5"-54 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 5"-62 caliber gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 8" naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 16"-50 caliber MK 7 naval gun: Add brief definition or description
  • 18.1"-45 caliber naval gun: Add brief definition or description
•  Pistol: Add brief definition or description
  •  M1911 (pistol): Add brief definition or description
  • M9 (pistol): Add brief definition or description
•  Revolver: Add brief definition or description
•  Shotgun: Add brief definition or description

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•  Gun control: Add brief definition or description

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