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    The Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle and Colt Second Model Ring Lever rifle are two early caplock revolving rifles that were produced by the Patent Arms...
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    1829. The first lever-action rifles on the market were likely the Colt's 1st and 2nd Model Ring Lever rifles, both cap and ball rifles, produced by the...
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    The Colt New Model revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1855 until 1864. The design was essentially...
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    was Colt's only entrance into the lever-action rifle market, produced to compete with Winchester Repeating Arms Company's line of popular rifles. The...
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  • The Model 1839 Carbine is differentiated from Colt's Ring Lever rifles by the lack of a cocking ring lever and the presence of an external hammer, which...
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    without disassembly. This loading lever and capping window design change was also incorporated after the fact into most Colt Paterson revolvers that had been...
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  • attached a loose-powder-and-ball magazine patented in the US in 1837. Colt Ring Lever rifles (1837) Bailey, Ripley and Smith Magazine Rifle: In 1838 the Americans...
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    M16 rifle (redirect from Colt M16)
    Vietnam War, Colt developed two rifles of the M16 pattern for evaluation as possible light sniper or designated marksman rifles. The Colt Model 655 M16A1...
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    the weapon. There are various types of rifles, most notably the automatic rifle, the bolt-action rifle, the lever-action rifle and the semi-automatic rifle...
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    Winchester Model 1892 (category Lever-action rifles)
    1914–1919 – Vol. 1: Rifles and Carbine. Canterbury, Kent: Solo Publications. ISBN 978-0-9568529-0-8. "45 Colt in Lever Action Rifles". "Trademark Trial...
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  • Winchester Model 1894 (category Lever-action rifles)
    Winchester 94 or Model 94) is a lever-action repeating rifle that became one of the most famous and popular hunting rifles of all time. It was designed by...
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    attached a loose-powder-and-ball magazine patented in the US in 1837. Colt Ring Lever rifles (1837) Bailey, Ripley and Smith Magazine Rifle: In 1838 the Americans...
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    Paterson, New Jersey, Colt's Patent. The first firearm manufactured at the new Paterson plant, however, was the Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle beginning...
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    Marlin Model 1894 (category Lever-action rifles)
    both are lever-action rifles and named similarly, the Marlin 1894 is different from the Winchester Model 1894. Marlin produced its first lever-action repeating...
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  • The Colt Canada C7 and C8 are a Canadian family of service rifles, manufactured by Colt Canada (formerly Diemaco), having similar design and function...
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  • locking lever" is a spring-loaded claw mounted on the bolt carrier that grabs the bolt head as the bolt carrier group goes into battery. The lever essentially...
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  • Marlin Model 336 (category Lever-action rifles)
    XLR Series Marlin also offers an XLR line of rifles in several calibers, all based on the Model 336 lever action design. The Model 336XLR features stainless...
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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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    M1/M2 carbines except that the M7 has a much larger muzzle ring. The M7 has the same two-lever locking mechanism as the M4, that connects to a lug on the...
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    introduced the A17R and A22R rimfire rifles (both modified from its new A-series rifles, with a bolt release lever in front of the trigger guard), aiming...
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    Revolver (section Rifles)
    revolving rifles in the early 19th century, making them in a variety of calibers and barrel lengths. Colt revolving rifles were the first repeating rifles adopted...
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  • Winchester Model 1895 (category Lever-action rifles)
    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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    semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles and sniper rifles, to differences in the rifle's action as in bolt-action, lever-action, and break-action rifles. Examples...
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    ArmaLite AR-10 (category 7.62×51mm NATO battle rifles)
    U.S. military as the M16 rifle. Colt continued to use the AR-15 trademark for its line of semi-automatic-only rifles, which it marketed to civilian and...
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    bolt-or lever-action designs, drawing inspiration from contemporary repeating rifles, with the earliest successful repeating shotgun being the lever-action...
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  • 1850 Pocket Navy and Pocket Police: 1861 Colt revolving rifle (US - Repeating Rifle - 1855) Colt Ring Lever rifle (first and second model) (US - caplock...
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    hammers (such as the Winchester 1897). 1884 Colt Lightning slide-action rifles and Winchester 1887 lever-action shotguns are also allowed. Both original...
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    (USSOCOM) for special operations units, beating out the nearest competitor, Colt's OHWS. Development of the pistol began in 1991 as special operations representatives...
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    Lee–Enfield (redirect from Enfield rifles)
    to the Colt Canada C19 due to increasing lack of spare parts. The Indian Army phased them out in 1990–92, replacing them with AKM-type rifles (see Indo-Russia...
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