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  2. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    Hand cannon from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The history of firearms begins in 10th-century China, when tubes containing gunpowder and pellet projectiles were mounted on spears to make portable fire lances, [1] operable by one person. This was later used effectively as a shock weapon in the Siege of De'an in 1132.

  3. List of equipment of the Royal Danish Army - Wikipedia

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    Pistol. 9x19 mm NATO. Standard issue pistol [2] [3] Modified with a flared magwell and using 21 rnd magazines [2] [3] There was a minor dispute with Glock surrounding the adoption [4] [5] No M/XX designation due to new naming convention of calling weapons by manufacturer's name. Pistol 9mm P365.

  4. List of firearms - Wikipedia

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    List of firearms. This is an extensive list of small arms —including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles ...

  5. Police of Denmark - Wikipedia

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    Yamaha Patrol Motorcycle Mounted police officers Police line made by caution tape Mercedes Sprinter mini-bus. The Police of Denmark (Danish: Politiet, Faroese: Løgreglan, Greenlandic: Politiit) is the Danish National Police force, and the interior part of the Danish security forces (the Danish military being the exterior) in the Kingdom (The Danish Realm: Denmark (proper), Greenland, Faroe ...

  6. SIG P210 - Wikipedia

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    SIG P210. The SIG P210 ( Swiss Army designation Pistole 49, the civilian model was known as SP47/8 prior to 1957) is a locked breech self loading, semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ( Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland) by SIG from 1948 to 2006. It is of all- steel construction chambered in 9×19mm ...

  7. Heckler & Koch - Wikipedia

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    Heckler & Koch GmbH ( HK or H&K; German pronunciation: [ˌhɛklɐ ʔʊnt ˈkɔx]) is a German firearms manufacturer that produces handguns, rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers. The company is located in Oberndorf am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, and also has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.

  8. HS Produkt - Wikipedia

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    c. 2000 [3] (2013) Website. www .hs-produkt .hr. HS Produkt d.o.o. is a Croatian firearms manufacturing company, best known for design and production of the HS2000 and XDM series of semi-automatic pistols, [4] [5] which are sold in the United States market by Springfield Armory, Inc., under their XD, XD-S, XD-M, Echelon and Hellcat brandings.

  9. Submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").