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  2. Machine gun - Wikipedia

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    A vehicle with a Sumitomo M2 heavy machine gun mounted at the rear. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. [1] Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or ...

  3. M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun - Wikipedia

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    closed bolt firing cycle. Rate of fire. 400–450 rpm. Feed system. Belt. Sights. Iron sights. The Colt–Browning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute.

  4. Thompson submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    The submachine gun is not grandfathered like in the U.S., only the owner. The submachine gun can only be sold to other grandfathered individuals; this keeps prices extremely low as the number of permitted licensed individuals is very small and dwindling with time. Eventually, all prohibited guns will be out of circulation.: Part 1.86

  5. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    The world's first machine gun was the Maxim gun, developed by British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. The world's first successful self-loading rifle was the Mondragón rifle, designed in 1908 by Mexican general Manuel Mondragón. It was the first self-loading firearm able to be operated by one person.

  6. M2 Browning - Wikipedia

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    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) cartridge.

  7. Hiram Maxim - Wikipedia

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    Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American -born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.

  8. Medium machine gun - Wikipedia

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    A medium machine gun ( MMG ), in modern terms, usually refers to a belt -fed machine gun firing a full-powered rifle cartridge, and is considered "medium" in weight (15–40 lb or 6.8–18.1 kg). [1] [2] Medium machine guns are light enough to be infantry -portable (as opposed to a heavy machine gun, which completely relies on mounting onto a ...

  9. Richard Jordan Gatling - Wikipedia

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    Crown Hill Cemetery. Known for. Gatling gun. Spouse. Jemima Sanders. . ( m. 1854) . Signature. Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun .