Modern U. S. civilian carbines include compact customizations of the AR-15, Ruger Mini-14, Beretta Cx4 Storm, Kel-Tec SUB-2000, bolt-action rifles generally falling under the specifications of a scout rifle, and aftermarket conversion kits for popular pistols including the M1911 and Glock models.

Modern rifles are capable of firing more than one round per trigger squeeze ; some fire in a fully automatic mode and others are limited to fixed bursts of two, three, or more rounds per squeeze.

Modern military rifles are fed by box magazines, while machine guns are generally ( but not always ) belt-fed.

Modern hunting rifles have fiberglass and carbon fiber stocks and more advanced recoil pads, but are fundamentally the same as infantry rifles from 1910.

Modern muzzleloading firearms range from reproductions of sidelock, flintlock and percussion long guns, to in-line rifles that use modern inventions such as a closed breech, sealed primer and fast rifling to allow for considerable accuracy at long ranges.

Modern battle rifles such as the Galil, HK G3, FN FAL, and AKM were purchased from the military and INUNDIL and through drug-funded private sales.

Modern sniper rifles can be divided into two basic classes: military and law enforcement.

Modern arsenals were established at places like Hanyang Arsenal, which produced German Mauser rifles and mountain guns.

Modern Winchesters, Marlins and replicas have remedied this omission almost 100 years after the fact, and the. 45 Colt is now available in modern lever-action rifles.

Modern rifles with strong actions ( such as the Winchester Model 1894, Marlin Model 1894, and new clones of the Winchester Model 1892 ) chambered for the cartridge can safely handle the heavier loadings.

Modern designs may use the belted magnum design ; older ones may be rimmed for break actions or rimless for bolt action rifles.

Modern PCP match rifles from the leading manufacturers all feature fast lock times, shoot practically recoilless and vibration free, exhibit minimal movement and balance shifts and can be tailored by an adjustable aluminum stock and other user interfaces and various accessories to the individual shooters personal preferences to promote comfortable and accurate shooting from a standing position.

* The Modern Burgundian language, an Oïl language also known as Bourguignon spoken in the region of Burgundy.

" Ten Thousand Dollars A Page " was filmed at the Pasadena Art Museum, later known as the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art and now the Norton Simon Museum of Art.

Modern theories give weight to intuition, perceptually observed properties, comparisons of categories among persons, and the direction of investigation towards known specified ends, to determine what humanity in its present state of being needs to consider irreducible.

Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 94 ) is considered the " People known as the father or mother of something | Father of Modern Chemistry ".

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.

The 12 year cycle, including Turkish / Mongolian translations of the animal names ( known as sanawat-e turki سنوات ترکی ,) remained in use for chronology, historiography, and bureaucratic purposes in the Persian and Turkish speaking world from Asia Minor to India and Mongolia throughout the Medieval and Early Modern periods.

Constantine, son of Áed ( Medieval Gaelic: Constantín mac Áeda ; Modern Gaelic: Còiseam mac Aoidh, known in most modern regnal lists as Constantine II ; before 879 – 952 ) was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba.

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

Modern destroyers, also known as guided missile destroyers, are equivalent in tonnage but vastly superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Domnall mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Ailpein, anglicised sometimes as Donald MacAlpin, and known in most modern regnal lists as Donald I ); ( 812 – 13 April 862 ) was king of the Picts from 858 to 862.

Modern humans are known to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe for more than 10, 000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that Neanderthals, modern humans and the Denisova hominin may have co-existed.

Modern scripts are based on the " square " letter form, known as Ashurit ( Assyrian ), which was developed from the Aramaic script.

Modern theatrical improvisation is generally accepted to have taken form in the improvisational acting exercises developed by Viola Spolin in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, now known as Theater Games.

Modern indoor rowers are often known as ergometers ( colloquially erg or ergo ), an ergometer being a device which measures the amount of work performed.

Yatsuhashi Kengyo is now known as the " Father of Modern Koto ".

Modern nihonto manufactured according to traditional methods are usually known as, meaning " newly made swords ".

Modern instruments with 15 or fewer strings are generally more closely modeled on traditional shapes, and form a category of instrument known as small kantele, in contrast to the modern concert kantele.

Cináed mac Ailpín ( Modern Gaelic: Coinneach mac Ailpein ), commonly Anglicised as Kenneth MacAlpin and known in most modern regnal lists as Kenneth I ( 810-13 February 858 ) was king of the Picts and, according to national myth, first king of Scots, earning him the posthumous nickname of An Ferbasach, " The Conqueror ".

Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ( Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain, known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, " the Unfortunate " and Fatuus, " the Simple-minded " or " the Foolish "; before 1033 – 17 March 1058 ) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058.

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

Mac Bethad mac Findlaích ( Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh, anglicised as Macbeth, and nicknamed Rí Deircc, " the Red King "; died 15 August 1057 ) was King of the Scots ( also known as the King of Alba, and earlier as King of Moray and King of Fortriu ) from 1040 until his death.

In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus ( Ancient Greek:, Zeús ; Modern Greek: Δίας, Días ) is the " Father of Gods and men " (, patḕr andrōn te theōn te ) who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family.

Modern plywood was invented by Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel.

He also published Modern Greece, A Narrative of a Residence and Travels in that Country ( 1856 ); a biography of his father, The Life of the Rev.

* Emil Christian Hansen, the father of Modern Brewing: At the Carlsberg Laboratories in Copenhagen, he was the first to discover that yeast was composed of different kinds of fungi and that the yeast culture could be cultivated.

Modern era private equity, however, is credited to Georges Doriot, the " father of venture capitalism " with the founding of ARDC and founder of INSEAD, with capital raised from institutional investors, to encourage private sector investments in businesses run by soldiers who were returning from World War II.

His father was a carpenter and he attended Tavistock Secondary Modern School, Croydon and Croydon Secondary Technical School.

The modern pentathlon, invented by Pierre de Coubertin ( father of the Modern Olympics ), was a variation on the military aspect of the Ancient pentathlon.

In 2010, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on the ABC TV series Modern Family as Phil Dunphy's father, Frank Dunphy.

Willard played Frank Dunphy, father of Phil ( Ty Burrell ), in several episodes of the show Modern Family.

The father – bother merger is a merger of the Early Modern English vowels and that occurs in almost all varieties of North American English ( exceptions are accents in northeastern New England, such as the Boston accent, and in New York City ).

In 1912, while the two were living in Chigasaki, Isamu's half-sister, pioneer of the American Modern Dance movement Ailes Gilmour, was born to Léonie and an unknown father.

Modern bust of Cleisthenes, known as " the father of Athenian democracy ", on view at the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio

Before Highfields School was founded in 1982, when the tripartite education system in Matlock ended, there were two secondary schools in Matlock ; Charles White Secondary Modern School ( founded in 1956, and named after two local MPs, father and son, the latter of who died in 1956 ) and Ernest Bailey's Grammar School ( founded in 1924 and named after its wealthy founder ).

Modern detractors of Liu Bei suggest that this incident caused A ' dou to suffer from brain damage and grow up to become an incompetent heir to the state of Shu Han established by his father.

Jalāl al-Dawlah Malik-shāh ( Persian:, Modern Turkish: Melikşah, or simply Malik Shāh ) was born in 1055 and succeeded his father, Alp Arslan, as the Seljuq Sultan in 1072, and reigned until his death in 1092.

Galileo Galilei has been called the " father of modern observational astronomy ", because of his discovery of telescope and heliocentrism, and even " the Father of Modern Science ".

* SFC Matt Larsen, father of the Modern Army Combatives system, founder of the United States Army Combatives School.

* Matt Larsen, served in 1st Ranger Battalion, 2nd Ranger Battalion and 75th Ranger Regiment ; known as the father of Modern Army Combatives and founder of the United States Army Combatives School.

Galileo has been called the " father of modern observational astronomy ", the " father of modern physics ", the " father of science ", and " the Father of Modern Science ".

The name is a reference to the son of Prometheus in Greek mythology, as his " father ", Victor Frankenstein, is presumably the being whom the novel referred to as " The Modern Prometheus ".

He attended Bolton on Dearne Secondary Modern School, but after his father suffered an industrial accident, he was forced to leave school early at 14 and spent several years working at a variety of jobs, ranging from undertaker to plasterer's assistant.

Kadukuri Veeresalingam, is said to be the father of Modern Telugu fiction.