Modern carbines use ammunition ranging from that used in light pistols up to powerful rifle cartridges, with the usual exception of high velocity magnum cartridges.

Modern handloading equipment enables a firearm owner to tailor fresh ammunition to a specific firearm, and to precisely measured tolerances far exceeding the comparatively wide tolerances within which commercial ammunition manufacturers must operate.

Modern light machine guns are designed to fire more rounds of a smaller caliber and, as such, tend to be belt-fed from a detachable box magazine, some such as the FN Minimi will also accept rifle magazine feeding as an auxiliary measure when belted ammunition has been exhausted.

Modern caseless ammunition consists of a solid mass of propellant, originally nitrocellulose, cast into shape to form the body of the cartridge, with cavities to accept the bullet and a primer, preferably combustible, which are glued into place.

Modern weapons are susceptible, particularly if the ammunition has been stored in an environment outside of the design specifications.

Modern turrets are often automatic in their operation, with no humans working inside them and only a small team passing fixed ammunition into the feed system.

Modern infantry machine guns often have feed systems allowing the use of linked ammunition or other forms of feed like magazines or drums.

Modern Western MMG / GPMG weapons almost always fire 7. 62x51 full-power rifle ammunition ; modern Eastern MMG / GPMG weapons usually fire 7. 62x54R full-power rifle ammunition with a rimmed cartridge.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy.

Modern man, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer has told us, has `` come of age '' ; ;

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

Modern Westerners have difficulty comprehending this fusion of moral and material, largely because in the West the historical trend has been to deny the connection.

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

During the more recent Modern era and in the Post-Modern period the artillery crew has used wheeled or tracked vehicles as a mode of transportation.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Modern genetics has made clear that the lack of use does not, in itself, necessitate a feature's disappearance.

Modern ballroom dance has its roots early in the 20th century, when several different things happened more or less at the same time.

Modern technology ( the internet and cheaper home printing ) has also influenced board games via the phenomenon of print-and-play board games that you buy and print yourself.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Modern barter and trade has evolved considerably to become an effective method of increasing sales, conserving cash, moving inventory, and making use of excess production capacity for businesses around the world.

Modern biotechnology has evolved, making it possible to produce more easily and relatively cheaply human growth hormone, clotting factors for hemophiliacs, fertility drugs, erythropoietin and other drugs.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century " ethnology ", which involves the organized comparison of human societies.

Modern research has located 20, 000 mass graves from the Khmer Rouge era all over Cambodia.

More recently, Modern Family character Cameron Tucker has been shown as a Bears fan.

Modern North American football has its origins in various games, all known as " football ", played at public schools in England in the mid-19th century.

Modern citizenship has often been looked at as two competing underlying ideas:

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

The River, lead, 1943 ( cast 1948 ), Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Modern deists believe that they must continue what the classical deists started and continue to use modern human knowledge to come to understand God, which in turn is why a human-like God that can lead to numerous contradictions and inconsistencies is no longer believed in and has been replaced with a much more abstract conception.

Modern physicians suspect that the lead in his pigments poisoned him and caused his deafness after 1792.

Modern Orthodox authorities are more willing to assume that under scrupulous examination, identical principles may lead to different applications in the context of modern life.

Modern pencils do not contain lead as the " lead " of the pencil is actually a mix of finely ground graphite and clay powders.

In Modern Standard Chinese, dao 道's pronunciations are tonally differentiated between 4th falling tone dào " way ; path " and 3rd dipping tone dǎo ( usually written 導 ) " guide ; lead ".

This preference for adaptive over inadaptive forces lead Stephen Jay Gould to call attention to the " hardening of the Modern Synthesis ," a trend in the 1950s where adaptationism took precedent over the pluralism of mechanisms common in the 1930s and 40s.

It's Saturday the album's lead single, managed to hit No. 23 on the Modern Rock Charts, and followed by a second single, Bye Bye.

Following this lead, until the 1970s the Modern Orthodox and the non-Orthodox movements worked together in the now-defunct Synagogue Council of America.

Modern pewters are available that are completely free of lead, although many pewters containing lead are still being produced for other purposes.

The vocals came from Sputzy Sparacino who is the lead singer of Modern Man and Delilah on the tracks " If Tomorrow Comes " and " The World Inside Your Eyes ".

Modern New Keynesian models address this issue by assuming that the labor market is segmented, so that the expansion in employment by a given firm does not lead to lower profits for the other firms ( see Woodford 2003 ).

Modern with more free arm extensions, and emphasis on how many spins, etc., the man can lead.

A related difficulty is that Modern Orthodox rabbis who do adopt stringencies may, in the process, lose the support of precisely the " Modern " group which they sought to lead.

A hazzan or chazzan ( ħazzān, Modern Hebrew hazan, Yiddish khazn Ladino hassan ) is a Jewish cantor, a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the congregation in songful prayer.

As expected by the label, Music for People created a bit of a buzz in the musical world as the band received MTV airplay with their lead single " Free "' s music video, with the single charting on the Billboard's Hot 100, and hitting No. 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks.

" Most Orthodox communities, including Modern Orthodox ones, however, generally do not allow women to lead the Megillah reading except in rare circumstances owing to the notion of " Kavod HaTzibbur ".

He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos.

As a mathematics educator, Dodgson defended the use of Euclid's Elements as a geometry textbook ; Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a criticism of a reform movement in geometry education lead by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching.

Later that year, questions were raised about the workmanship on a Central Artery contract on which Modern was lead contractor, after a large leak was found in the Interstate 93 tunnel beneath downtown Boston.

Greek and Hebrew texts would become available with the development of the Johann Gutenberg's movable-type printing press which coincided with the development of Early Modern English, making English a literary language, and would lead to a great increase in the number of translations of the Bible in the Early Modern English era.