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2,000 (2022) Website. Official website. Dunham's Sports is an American sporting goods retail chain owned by Dunham's Athleisure Corporation, [2] with stores located in the Midwestern to Southeastern United States. The chain specializes in athletic equipment, clothing, firearms, and other sports-related items. The chain has over 250 locations in ...
Guns & Ammo is a magazine dedicated to firearms, hunting, competitive shooting, reloading, and other shooting-related activities in the United States. Content and Circulation [ edit ] The magazine offers reviews on firearms, ammunition, optics and shooting gear.
The table below gives a list of firearms that can fire the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, first developed and used in the late 1970s for the M16 rifle, which to date, is the most widely produced weapon in this caliber.
The 5.56×45mm NATO standard SS109/M855 cartridge was designed for maximum performance when fired from a 508 mm (20.0 in) long barrel, as was the original 5.56 mm M193 cartridge. Experiments with longer length barrels up to 610 mm (24.0 in) resulted in no improvement or a decrease in muzzle velocities for the SS109/M855 cartridge.
The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) [5] round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Kalashnikov rifles, as well as the SKS, RPD, and RPK light machine guns . The AK-47 was designed shortly after WWII, later becoming the AKM ...
White phosphorus munitions are weapons that use one of the common allotropes of the chemical element phosphorus. White phosphorus is used in smoke, illumination, and incendiary munitions, and is commonly the burning element of tracer ammunition. [1] Other common names for white phosphorus munitions include WP and the slang terms Willie Pete and ...
The flintlock Kalthoff repeaters by Mathias Kalthoff, circa. 1656–1694, at Livrustkammaren. A repeating firearm or repeater is any firearm (either a handgun or long gun) that is capable of being fired repeatedly before having to be manually reloaded with new ammunition into the firearm. Unlike single-shot firearms, which can only hold and ...
Caseless ammunition is an attempt to reduce the weight and cost of ammunition by dispensing with the case, which is typically precision made of brass or steel, as well as to simplify the operation of repeating guns by eliminating the need to extract and eject the empty case after firing. [2]