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    The ColtBrowning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that...
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  • Browning machine guns are a family of machine gun designs by John Browning, a prolific weapon designer. These include: M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun...
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    Machine guns M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun air-cooled gas-operated machine gun M1917 Browning machine gun water-cooled recoil-operated machine gun M1919...
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    000, and Colt 600.: 179  Until the start of World War I, the Army had used a variety of older machine guns, including the Browning-designed M1895 "Potato...
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  • Browning M1918 Colt-Browning M1895 Browning M1917A1 Browning M1919A4 Browning M2 Lewis Gun Type 3 heavy machine gun (captured) Type 11 light machine gun...
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  • The Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (commonly shortened to Colt IAR or IAR6940) is a light machine gun designed by Phil Hinckley and manufactured by...
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    Hill. The M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun or "Potato Digger" was built by Colt. The ColtBrowning was one of the first gas-operated machine guns, originally...
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  • lever-action rifle M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun - a machine gun 10-inch gun M1895 - a U.S. Army coast artillery piece 12-inch gun M1895 - a U.S. Army coast...
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    Nagant M1895 is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered...
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    various models in 7.92 Kjellman machine gun Bren Gun FM-24/29 Lahti-Saloranta M/26 M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun ZB vz. 26 Chauchat M1918 BAR Citations...
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    the U.S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun using the 6mm Lee Navy round, which they employed to defeat...
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  • with spitzer (pointed) bullets. The M1895 was also the last of the lever-action rifles to be designed by John Browning, and featured a rear locking bolt...
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    multiple-barrel machine guns and the single-barrel Maxim guns. By the end of the 19th century, many new designs such as the M1895 ColtBrowning and Hotchkiss...
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    the Colt-Browning M1895, and was adopted by the US navy in 1895. In 1895, in response to the interest shown in the 40 pounds, air-cooled Colt-Browning M1895...
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    powered by air or recoil, or a combination of the two (e.g., the Colt 1895 and M1895, Hotchkiss M1909, PM M1910, Fiat–Revelli Modello 1914, Fiat–Revelli...
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    machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was...
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  • gun PM M1910 Degtyaryov machine gun M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle Maxim–Tokarev Madsen machinegun Chauchat Ckm wz. 30 Wz.28 BAR M1895 ColtBrowning machine...
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    - Small Arms Review". 26 September 2011. Chapter 16: Revelli Machine Gun The Machine Gun "HK 421 – Heckler & Koch stell neues Maschinengewehr im Kaliber...
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    M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. Shortly after World War I, the French army replaced the Chauchat with the new gas-operated Mle 1924 light machine gun. It...
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    M1911 pistol (redirect from Browning 1911)
    all-new service rifles (M1892/96/98 Krag and M1895 Navy Lee), as well as a series of revolvers by Colt and Smith & Wesson for the Army and Navy, were...
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    Mauser C96 (redirect from Broomhandle gun)
    German arms manufacturer Mauser from 1896 to 1937. Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century...
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    FN M1900 (redirect from Browning M1900)
    a slide. John Browning started his work on semi-automatic pistols in 1894, when he mostly finalized the M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun. He initially...
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    rifle Maxim gun Mendoza HM-3 MG 08 MG 13 MG 17 machine gun MG 131 machine gun M2 Browning machine gun M16 rifle M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun Parabellum...
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    Smith & Wesson Model 3 (category Guns of the American West)
    Lawman, Tuolumne "Smith & Wesson's #3, Colt's Biggest Rival in the Old West". Archived 2008-02-28 at the Wayback Machine. Sam Hane's Western History. Service...
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  • Support guns Škoda 3.7cm M1915 Infanteriegeschutz Sidearms Browning FN M1900 Browning FN M1903 Browning FN M1910 Colt M1903 Pocket Hammerless Nagant M1895 Ruby...
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    Designed as a less expensive alternative to the upscale Colt .357 and the later Colt Python and Colt King Cobra, it was marketed to law enforcement agencies...
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    by the gunsmith Hyman Lebman - known for converting Colt Government .38 Super handguns to machine pistols - to be capable of automatic fire. In addition...
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  • a weapon with firepower intermediate between the rifle and the light machine gun, but with mobility comparable to a rifle. His decision to adapt his semi-automatic...
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    remained the major contractor for the Russian Government, and the Nagant M1895 revolver was subsequently adopted by the Russian army as its main sidearm...
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    471,782 and used a slight variation of this design on the M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun "potato digger". The Danish Bang rifle used a muzzle cup blown...
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