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A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations. These weapons are characteristically too large for an individual to fire from the shoulder or often carry alone, but unlike artillery pieces, punt guns are able to be aimed and fired by a single person from a mount.
A caliber conversion device is a device which can be used to non-permanently alter a firearm to allow it to fire a different cartridge than the one it was originally designed to fire. The different cartridge must be smaller in some dimensions than the original design cartridge, and since smaller cartridges are usually cheaper, the device allows ...
Stock (firearms) The anatomy of a gunstock on a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic rifle with Fajen thumbhole silhouette stock. 1) butt, 2) forend, 3) comb, 4) heel, 5) toe, 6) grip, 7) thumbhole. A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that ...
Feb. 26—A feature film called She Rides Shotgun, which follows a man's journey after incarceration, recently wrapped up filming in Albuquerque and Zia Pueblo, the New Mexico Film Office ...
The PK ( Russian: Пулемёт Калашникова, transliterated as Pulemyot Kalashnikova, or "Kalashnikov's machine gun") [ 4] is a belt-fed general-purpose machine gun, chambered for the 7.62×54mmR rimmed cartridge. Designed in the Soviet Union and currently in production in Russia, [ 1] the original PK machine gun was introduced in ...
In the first half of 2015, shotguns were used in 14 incidents at High Desert alone. Three were birdshot, the rest blanks. Throughout the state, on average, officers fired a live shotgun round once every 10 days between January 1, 2012, and June 26, 2015, not including warning shots, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC).
Rifle. Common rifles from the mid-to-late 20th century of various types and configurations, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Virginia, United States. From top to bottom: FAMAS, vz. 52 rifle, CAR-15, M40, SVD rifle, RK 62, and Type 56. A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting and higher stopping power, with a ...
Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun. Mark 59 Mod 0 Projectile. United States. 1970. Heckler & Koch P11 [2] Heckler & Koch. 7.62×36mm. West Germany.