When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

First on my own list would be two arms -- a rifle and a handgun -- that qualify as new in the strictest sense.

As they were riding along this winding road on the bench of land between the two bluffs, a volley of rifle fire suddenly crashed around the two officers.

A 1989 listing of forces shows two Czechoslovak armies in the west, the 1st at Příbram with one tank division and three motor rifle divisions, the 4th at Písek with two tank divisions and two motor rifle divisions.

In the early American Civil War the regular United States Army mounted rifle, dragoon, and two existing cavalry regiments were reorganized and renamed cavalry regiments, of which there were six.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

These two battalions boasted only five rifle companies between them ( an infantry battalion normally had 5 companies ).

In the United Kingdom, the main service gunpowders were classified RFG ( rifle grained fine ) with diameter of one or two millimeters and RLG ( rifle grained large ) for grain diameters between two and six millimeters.

In the course of doing so, I carried a rifle and two grenades.

The " backyard photos ", taken by Marina Oswald probably around March 31, 1963 using a camera belonging to Oswald, show Oswald holding two Marxist newspapers — The Militant and The Worker — and a rifle, and wearing a pistol in a holster.

Compagnie A is the first of two rifle companies and it forms the Luxembourg contingent of the Eurocorps and will normally be integrated into the Belgian contribution during operations.

The SMF is organized as a ground infantry unit, with six rifle companies, two mobilisable paramilitary companies, and one engineer company, according to the IISS Military Balance 2007.

Assault rifles are a compromise between the size and weight of a pistol-caliber submachinegun and a full size traditional automatic rifle by firing intermediate cartridges, ( or sometimes full power cartridges ) and allowing semi-automatic, burst or full-automatic fire options ( selective fire ), often with two or more of these available on the rifle at once.

From 1883, John Moses Browning worked in partnership with Winchester, designing a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the lever-action Winchester Model 1886, Model 1892, Model 1894, and Model 1895 rifles, along with the lever-action Model 1887 / 1901 shotgun, the pump-action Model 1890 rifle, and the pump-action Model 1893 / 1897 shotgun.

Weapons with these specifications fall under the category of smooth bore handguns produced in heavy rifle calibers and 12 / 20 gauge shotgun calibers, contrary to illegal sawed-off shotguns and are not considered destructive devices.

Pump-actions are usually associated with shotguns, but one example of a pump-action rifle is the Remington Model 7600 series.

As a response to the spree killing, Australian State and Territory governments placed tight restrictions on semi-automatic centre-fire rifles, high-capacity repeating shotguns and high-capacity rifle magazines.

While shotgun slugs were originally developed as a convenience to the hunter who already owned a shotgun and did not want to purchase a rifle for hunting game, heavily populated areas now allow large game hunting only with shotguns.

The weapons included forty 12-and 16-gauge shotguns, thirty-five Mosberg and Remington. 22 rifles, sixty handguns of various models, a malfunctioning. 45 caliber submachine gun, twenty-four rifles of different caliber, including eight Model 1898 Krag-Jørgensen rifles, a. 30-06 Model 1903 Springfield rifle, three sawed-off 1892. 44-caliber Winchester rifles, and a. 30 caliber M1 Garand rifle with a folding metal stock.

* M1917 bayonet, the bayonet used with the US M1917 Enfield rifle and later with US Army combat shotguns

It was taught using an air rifle, although the same techniques apply to handguns or shotguns.

In many populated areas, hunters are restricted to shotguns even for medium to large game, such as deer, due to concerns about the range of modern rifle bullets.

Business at Parker-Hale remained relatively stable throughout the 1960s and into the 1980s, with sales of target and sporting rifles, handguns, shotguns and ammunition sitting comfortably alongside the company's comprehensive range of rifle scopes, knives, award-winning gun care accessories and cleaning kits.

The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.

All that time rifle barrels were pointing unwaveringly at his head and body.

A 60 mm. mortar and a 57 mm. recoilless rifle owned by Lauchli were brought along.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

His thoughts were scattered by the sharp report of a rifle from the other side of the door.

These were determined to be less than ideal, as the recoil of full-power rifle cartridges caused the weapon to be uncontrollable in full-automatic fire.

Over a hundred other federal and state cavalry regiments were organized, but the infantry played a much larger role in many battles due to its larger numbers, lower cost per rifle fielded, and much easier recruitment.

A single attempt by the German army, on 12 August 1914, to use six regiments of massed cavalry to cut off the Belgian field army from Antwerp foundered when they were driven back in disorder by rifle fire.

Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.

The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade became famous for the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 where they charged on horseback using rifle bayonets, since neither sabres or lances were part of their equipment.

In a few hours 10, 000 Dervishes were killed by rifle and machine gun fire without any of them getting within 600 yards of the British force.

Until the mid-19th century, projectiles and propellant ( black powder ) were generally separate components used in a muzzle-loading firearm such as a rifle, pistol, or cannon.

Handguns were historically issued to riflemen as a secondary weapon, however the reliability and firepower of the modern assault rifle ( and the increasing amount and cost of equipment carried by a soldier ) has made this practice less common as of the end of the 20th century.

Carbines were and are typically used by members of the military in roles that are expected to engage in combat, but where a full-size rifle would be an impediment to the primary duties of that soldier ( vehicle drivers, field commanders and support staff, airbornes, engineers, etc .).

Early models contained ten rounds and were fitted to modified versions of the Jarmann — though they could be adapted to any bolt action rifle.

The mixing of rifle troops and muskets proved so effective that eventually the line battalion light companies were replaced with rifle companies.

In the early 1960s, the U. S. Air Force's rifle, the M16, and the Army's XM16E1, were the first versions of the M16 rifle fielded.