• The Colt Advanced Piston Carbine or Colt APC (internal product number P0923) is a lightweight modular 5.56mm caliber piston-operated, magazine fed carbine...
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    For the Individual Carbine competition, Colt submitted their Enhanced M4 design, also known as the Colt Advanced Piston Carbine (APC). The weapon has...
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    Canada (formerly Diemaco) licensed production of a rifle (Colt Model 715) and carbine (Colt Model 725), but later went on to produce an entire line of...
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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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    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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    M16 rifle (redirect from Colt M16)
    5. M16 – WAC-47 (2017). QORC, Colt Canada (2012). Automatic Carbines (2008). Edward C. Ezell (2021). "IDF Colt Carbine". Guns Magazine. Retrieved 25 August...
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    The M1 carbine (formally the United States carbine, caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine chambered in the .30 carbine (7.62×33mm) cartridge...
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    A carbine (/ˈkɑːrbiːn/ or /ˈkɑːrbaɪn/), from French carabine, is a long arm firearm but with a shorter barrel than a rifle or musket. Many carbines are...
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  • despite frequently being called such. For example: Select-fire Amogh carbines are not assault rifles; their effective range is only 200 yards. Select-fire...
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    other methods are employed to regulate the energy. The M1 carbine incorporates a very short piston, or "tappet." This movement is closely restricted by a...
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  • CAR-LIN CORP Colt Colt Canada C7 Cx4 Storm (Beretta) Choroszmanów Ckm wz. 25 Hotchkiss Colt Peacemaker Colt Monitor Colt Anaconda Colt M4 Carbine Daewoo Daewoo...
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    ArmaLite AR-15 (category Colt rifles)
    the carrying handle like AR-10 to the rear of the receiver), Colt rebranded it the Colt 601, however, it still carried the Armalite markings due to contractual...
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    Stoner 63 (category Long stroke piston firearms)
    destroyed. The Stoner 63 series of weapons are piston driven, air-cooled, belt or magazine-fed and in rifle and carbine configuration, fire from a closed bolt...
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    at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on November 9, 2011 M4 5.56mm Carbine[usurped]. colt.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-08. Project manager soldier weapons soldier...
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    rights to the AR-15 to the Colt Firearms Company, Stoner turned his attention to the AR-16 design. This was another advanced 7.62 mm rifle but used a more...
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  • back in a uniform fashion and restrict any off-axis movement. "Colt's Advanced Piston Carbine, the LE6940P In Stores". Guns.com. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2017-05-17...
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  • used a primer piston in a rifle submitted for the SPIW competition. Other rifles to use this system were the Postnikov APT and Clarke carbine as described...
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  • Marine 1873 Colt Single Action Colt M1861 Navy Colt 1851 Navy Revolver Harper's Ferry Model 1805 Beretta M9A1 Beretta M9 Rifles, Carbines, & Muskets United...
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    SA80 (redirect from L22 carbine)
    family consists of the L86 Light Support Weapon, the short-barrelled L22 Carbine and the L98 Cadet rifle. The SA80 was the last in a long line of British...
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  • While that bid was unsuccessful, the rifle attracted the attention of both Colt and the Dutch company Artillerie-Inrichtingen, both of which acquired licenses...
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    M27 infantry automatic rifle (category Short stroke piston firearms)
    but now is issued to all infantry riflemen as a replacement for the M4 carbine. The USMC initially planned to purchase 6,500 M27s to replace a portion...
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  • ArmaLite AR-18 (category Short stroke piston firearms)
    more conventional short-stroke gas piston in the AR-16 after ArmaLite sold the production rights to the DI system to Colt Firearms. The AR-16 had a short...
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    Steyr AUG (category Short stroke piston firearms)
    into the ban, AUG buyers gained a reprieve as cosmetic changes to the carbine's design allowed importation once again. Changes included redesigning its...
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    assault rifle produced by PT Pindad, based on the AR-15–style design of M4 carbine, HK416, and CAR 816, while also incorporating feedback from users of the...
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    frequently fitted with a Trijicon 4× ACOG, while the standard-issue M4 carbine is often equipped with an unmagnified Aimpoint CompM2 or CompM4. Commonly...
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    The Tarpley carbine: This is categorized into falling block action, but the breech block is hinged, unlike the others. The Morse Carbine: This mostly...
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    blimp, a device to reduce the noise made by a camera's shutter Colt 635SD De Lisle carbine MAC-10 MSP Groza silent pistol OTs-38 Stechkin silent revolver...
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    30-06 Springfield) out to 500 yd (457 m) Wounding ability equal to M1 carbine Springfield Armory's Earle Harvey lengthened the .222 Remington cartridge...
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    followed by the French Tabatière in 1857, by the British Calisher and Terry carbine made in Birmingham and later in 1864 by the better known British Snider–Enfield...
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  • very popular and trim lines of the Colt 1911 automatic pistol. Weihrauch then produced an under-lever spring piston rifle, the HW77. This gun opened fully...
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