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.

Others carried extra clips for the Browning Automatic Rifle, which was in the hands of a little Mexican named Martinez.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

A Browning Hi-Power, made for the Finnish military, with attached shoulder stock to turn it into a short carbine

Kits exist which will convert many pistols into carbines by the addition of a shoulder stock ; notable examples are the long barrelled Colt Buntline revolver stock, the Mauser C96 " Broomhandle " holster / stock, and various others for models such as the Browning Hi-Power, Luger, Colt M1911, and the Heckler & Koch VP70.

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

She also sketched President Teddy Roosevelt during her White House visits in 1902, during which " He sat for two hours, talking most of the time, reciting Kipling, and reading scraps of Browning.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

Handguns differ from rifles and shotguns in that they are smaller, lack a shoulder stock ( though some pistols like the Luger and Browning Hi-Power accept a removable stock allowing its use as a carbine ), are usually chambered for less-powerful cartridges, and are designed to be fired with one or two hands.

The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle was the first U. S. infantry weapon of this type, and was generally used for suppressive or support fire in the role now usually filled by the light machine gun.

* American M1919 Browning machine gun: originally chambered for. 30-06 Springfield but has since been converted to a variety of calibers ; it was used as an infantry weapon ( light and support roles ) and also mounted on a variety of vehicles, aircraft and naval platforms.

Tod Browning made the once controversial Freaks ( 1932 ) for MGM, based on " Spurs ", a short story by Tod Robbins, about a band of circus freaks.

Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).

Browning Model 1885 Black Powder Cartridge Rifle, A Reference Manual for the Shooter, Collector, & Gunsmith.

Browning followed and continued to act in Griffith's films, now for Reliance-Majestic Studios, including a stint as an extra in the epic Intolerance.

Booth's sister, Margaret Booth later a famous MGM editor, never forgave Browning for the loss of her brother.

Thalberg paired Browning with Lon Chaney, Sr. for the first time for the film The Wicked Darling ( 1919 ), a melodrama in which Chaney played a thief who forces a poor girl from the slums into a life of crime and possibly prostitution.

Thalberg reunited Browning with Lon Chaney for The Unholy Three ( 1925 ), the story of three circus performers who concoct a scheme to con and steal jewels from rich people using disguises.

Although Browning wanted to hire an unknown European actor for the title role and have him be mostly offscreen as a sinister presence, budget constraints and studio interference necessitated the casting of Bela Lugosi and a more straightforward approach.

* John Browning finalizes the design for the M1919 Browning machine gun (. 30 caliber ), the first widely distributed and practical air cooled medium machine gun introduced to the United States Military.

Automatic rifles such as the Browning Automatic Rifle were in common use by the military during the early part of the 20th century, and automatic rifles that fired handgun rounds, known as submachine guns, also appeared in this time.

Many members of the tribe live as part of the Blackfeet Nation in northwestern Montana, with population centered in Browning.

According to Porterfield, " There he improved his mathematics, struggled with Latin, listened to music that stirred him ( opera and oratorios, light ' classics ' of the day ), and learned, for the first time, of two poets — Tennyson and Browning — whose work would soon become an integral part of his intellectual equipment.

When he found that the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry, was to take part, Browning argued that a larger airborne force should be utilised, as the vast distances and comparatively light opposition would provide a number of opportunities for airborne operations.

Mounted in front of the gunner's hatch on the turret is the ubiquitous Browning M2 machine gun, manufactured under license by Sumitomo Heavy Industries, part of the Sumitomo Group.

Also, although Browning had been himself something of an insurgent and was still only in his mid-50s, he now came across as part of the Old Guard, the last gasp of the World War I generation desperately staving off the young bulls who had served in World War II ( even though he also had done so himself ), and he lost the 1952 nomination to Clement.

Kaat would coach part of the 1984 season and all of, a year in which he guided Cincinnati rookie Tom Browning to a 20 – 9 record.

Browning, who might have led us like Hamelin the piper, has chosen the worse part.

" Browning apparently missed the vulgar joke and took " twat " to mean part of a nun's habit, pairing it in his poem with a priest's cowl.

For example, the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, fighting as part of the Second Division didn't exchange their Hotchkiss M1914 machine guns for Browning M1917 machine guns until November 14th, three days after the armistice.

He was part of the group of leading communist historians invited to Moscow in 1954 / 5, with Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and the Byzantine historian Robert Browning.

According to Browning ( in the liner notes for his 1991 RCA Victor recording of the Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony ), the initial version of the piano part of the third movement was unplayable at performance tempo ; Barber resisted reworking the piano part until Vladimir Horowitz reviewed it and also deemed it unplayable at full tempo.

As a part of the SAMP ( Small Arms Master Plan ) program, it had the same laser targeting system as the XM29 OICW, but was intended to supplement the 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher and the. 50 M2 Browning machine gun.

Breech is locked by tilting the rear part of the bolt up into the mortise cut in the roof of receiver ( A la M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle ).

In July 2008, a two part play adaptation of this story, set in poetry and prose by Martyn Wade and starring Anton Lesser as Browning, Roger Allam as Guido Franceschini and Loo Brealey as Pompilia, was broadcast as the BBC Radio 4 " Classic Serial ".

Among her television roles, she played Mrs. Bardell in The Pickwick Papers ( 1985 ) and had a semi-regular part in Grange Hill in the 1980s as the mother of regular character Roland Browning.

Only three companies took part in the competition: the American Browning company with the Browning M1917, a Czechoslovakian-built copy of Schwarzlose M. 7 / 12 ( Schwarzlose-Janeček vz. 07 / 12 / 27 ) and the British Vickers machine gun.

They were addressed by FH Browning, the President of the IRFU, and they decided to volunteer to join the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a " pals " company, D Company.

Clement decided to challenge incumbent governor Gordon Browning in 1952 for the Democratic nomination for governor, which was then tantamount to election in Tennessee.

Designated kpist m / 37 ( 9mm Browning Long caliber ) after the year of adaption, in 1939 Sweden decided to switch to 9 mm Parabellum and the new weapons were designated kpist m / 37-39.

When Memphis political " boss " E. H. Crump had a falling out with Governor Hill McAlister, McAlister decided not to run for a third term, and Browning became Crump's chosen candidate to succeed him.

Thus thrust into the fray, Acuff decided to take his position seriously ; however, the entertainer versus the experienced former governor proved to be the mismatch that could have been anticipated, and Browning won in a landslide.

In 1984, he decided to run for Governor and in the Democratic primary challenged then-Speaker of the House Clyde M. See, State Attorney General Chauncey Browning, and State Highway Commissioner Dusty Rhodes.

Because of that, the Polish ministry decided to order the preparation of a local version of the Browning M1917.