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Heckler & Koch XM8. The Heckler & Koch XM8 is a lightweight assault rifle system developed from the late 1990s to early 2000s. The rifle was designed by German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch (H&K), and shares design and engineering with their G36 rifle . The XM8 design was originally part of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon ...
Privately made firearm. Receiver blanks in various stages of completion. Receiver blanks are often used in the manufacture of privately made firearms. A privately made firearm (also referred to as a ghost gun or homemade firearm) is a legal term for a firearm produced by a private individual as opposed to a corporate or government entity. [1]
The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle is a bolt-action sniper rifle designed and manufactured by the British company Accuracy International. It has proved popular as a civilian, police, and military rifle since its introduction in the 1980s. The rifles have features that improve performance in extremely cold conditions (which gave the ...
Whitney Firearms Inc.22 Long Rifle United States: 1956-1957 Wildey: Wildey F.A. Incorporated.357 Wildey Magnum.44 Auto Mag.45 Winchester Magnum.41 Wildey Magnum.44 Wildey Magnum.45 Wildey Magnum.475 Wildey Magnum United States: 1980-2011; 2016–present (USA Firearms Corp.-Wildey Guns) WIST-94: PREXER Ltd. 9×19mm Parabellum Poland: 1996-present
The shooting Tuesday at the Siam Paragon mall in the Thai capital has highlighted a gray area of the gun trade: the sale of handguns originally manufactured to shoot blanks but which can be ...
FB PM-63. The PM-63 RAK (often incorrectly referred to as Ręczny Automat Komandosów —"commandos' hand-held automatic"; the name itself means cancer or crayfish in Polish) is a Polish 9×18mm submachine gun, designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc in cooperation with Tadeusz Bednarski, Grzegorz Czubak and Marian Wakalski. [1]
History. The company's founder and head engineer, Gaston Glock (1929–2023), had no experience with firearms design or manufacture at the time his first pistol, the Glock 17, was being prototyped. Glock had extensive experience in advanced synthetic polymers, which was instrumental in the company's design of the first commercially successful ...
The PP-19 Vityaz (also known as the PP-19-01 " Vityaz-SN ") is a 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun developed in 2004 by Russian small arms manufacturer Izhmash. It is based on the AK-74 and offers a high degree of parts commonality with the AK-74. The gun is directly developed from the PP-19 Bizon. [3] [4] "Vityaz" (витязь) is Russian for ...