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The second batch of the class gave the guns high-angle turrets for anti-aircraft warfare, and the oxygen-fueled ' Long Lance ' Type 93 torpedo.
Long guns typically have a barrel between 10 and 30 inches ( there are restrictions on minimum barrel length in many jurisdictions ; maximum barrel length is usually a matter of practicality ), that along with the receiver and trigger group is mounted into a wood, plastic, metal or composite stock, composed of one or more pieces that form a foregrip, rear grip, and optionally ( but typically ) a shoulder mount called the butt.
Non-Restricted: Long guns with an overall length greater than 26 inches and, if semi-automatic, a barrel which is 18 1 / 2 inches or longer.
Long guns on display in front of the Préfecture maritime in Toulon
Their earlier long guns had been carbines, the first a. 44 Magnum and the next the highly popular Ruger 10 / 22 in. 22 Long Rifle.
Furthermore, in preparation for hostilities, the Boers had acquired around one hundred of the latest Krupp field guns, all horse-drawn and dispersed among the various Commando groups, and several Le Creusot " Long Tom " siege guns.
During World War II, various British and Commonwealth units, including the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ), the No. 1 Demolition Squadron or ' PPA ' ( Popski's Private Army ), and the Special Air Service ( SAS ) were noted for their exploits in the deserts of Egypt, Libya and Chad using unarmored motor vehicles, often fitted with machine guns and cannons of various types.
When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.
The Long Land Pattern musket and its derivatives, all. 75 caliber flintlock muskets, were the standard long guns of the British Empire's land forces from 1722 until 1838 when they were superseded by a percussion cap smoothbore musket.
During the search for more ammunition in New York City in The Drawing of the Three, the guns are revealed to be chambered close enough to. 45 or the. 45 Long Colt to use manufactured ammo.
The most common calibre used for plinking is the. 22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge, since these rounds are relatively inexpensive and have a low recoil, but airguns and airsoft guns are also used, often for cost or safety reasons or because they are subject to less stringent regulation.
During the Battle of Long Island, guns from the fort engaged British frigates starting on July 12.
As nearly all guns made this way are chambered for low pressure cartridges, such as. 22 Long Rifle and. 25 ACP, these techniques provide sufficient strength for the low powered cartridges and desirable weight and cost savings.
According to contemporary accounts, a cattleman named Dick McNulty and Chalk Beeson, owner of the Long Branch Saloon, convinced Allison and his cowboys to surrender their guns.
Many. 22 Long Rifle guns will chamber and fire the shorter round, though the. 22 Long generally does not generate sufficient energy to operate semi-automatic guns.
In February 1776 the house and grounds were commandeered for an American battery of nine guns on the site ; this drew British fire, 15 September 1776, in a mopping-up operation to secure all of Manhattan Island following the Battle of Long Island ; the bombardment demolished Walton's house and forced an American withdrawal.
He was with his guns at the siege of Boston, as well as the battles of Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth.
As Sonny approaches the Long Beach Causeway toll plaza, Barzini's men emerge with tommy guns and gun him down before he can flee.
alt = Long front-on view of military biplane on the ground, framed by upper wing, struts, cockpit and twin machine guns of similar machine facing away from camera
In addition, it had three anti-aircraft guns and a large deck gun as well as eight torpedo tubes from which they could fire the Long Lance-the largest, longest ranged and most deadly torpedo in use at the time.

Long and are
Shore facilities are enormous -- Los Angeles harbors 5,000 boats, and Long Beach 3,000 -- but marinas are crowded everywhere.
Within the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a list composed by Joseph Smith, Jr. as part of an 1842 letter sent to " Long " John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat.
The most affected zones are the mountainous area along Truong Son ( Long Mountains ) and the border between Vietnam and Cambodia.
* Long bones are characterized by a shaft, the diaphysis, that is much longer than it is wide.
The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.
Two schools are named after him, Cecil B. DeMille Middle school, in Long Beach, California, and Cecil B. DeMille elementary school in Midway City, California.
The adventures of the Cimbri are described by the Danish nobel-prize-winning author, Johannes V. Jensen, himself born in Himmerland, in the novel Cimbrernes Tog ( 1922 ), included in the epic cycle Den lange Rejse ( English The Long Journey, 1923 ).
Charles H. Long writes, " The beings referred to in the myth -- gods, animals, plants -- are forms of power grasped existentially.
The disks are suspended from 1 Long chain ( 24 INS ) and 1 short chain ( 4. 5 INS )
There are also extensive Long Haul services to the United States, Canada and the Middle East.
The boundaries of the " Gniezno " state are described as extending to the " Long Sea " ( the Baltic ), Prussia, Rus ', Kraków, Moravia and the Oder River.
There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.
In 1910, in Vitagraph's Back to Nature we see a Long Shot of people looking down over the rail of a ship taken from below, followed by a shot of the lifeboat they are looking at taken from their position.
Long belts of gabbroic intrusions are typically formed at proto-rift zones and around ancient rift zone margins, intruding into the rift flanks.
Other large and busy artificial harbors are located at: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Port of Houston, Texas ; Port of Long Beach, California ; and Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California.
Two examples of these traditions are the parties Long Tall Glasses ( a formal affair thrown by North ) and TQ Day ( a tequila-centered " beach " party thrown by West ).
It is typically agreed that rimfire cartridges ( e. g. 22 Long Rifle ) are not hand-loaded, although there are some shooters that unload commercial rimfire cartridges, and use the primed case to make their own loads, or to generate special rimfire wildcat cartridges.
Some leading art events in Hanover are the Long Night of the museums and the Zinnober Kunstvolkslauf which features all the galleries in Hanover.
Some important theatre-events are the Tanztheater International, the Long Night of the Theatres, the Festival Theaterformen and the International Competition for Choreographs.
< sup > δ </ sup > Though this term is non-standard usage – by " left ", agorists mean " left " in the general sense used by left-libertarians, as defined by Roderick T. Long, as "... an integration, or I'd argue, a reintegration of libertarianism with concerns that are traditionally thought of as being concerns of the left.
* Long QT syndrome is a ventricular arrhythmia syndrome caused by mutations in one or more of presently ten different genes, most of which are potassium channels and all of which affect cardiac repolarization.
Long distance road journeys are made by private Mercedes-Benz coach buses or various types of vans, trucks and cars.

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