Rifles are not limited to smallbore, or to competition use and numerous types of rifles, shotguns and black powder pistols and longarms, may be owned privately.

Included in the 146 figure, ( which may have been as high as 163 ) the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade suffered the loss of two officers and seven other ranks killed and 36 other ranks wounded.

Later the player may assign " skill points " ( gained from experience ) into specific abilities, e. g. Construction, Research, Droning and Rifles.

Alternatively, it may be a sympathetic gesture to a former Lowland regiment, the Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles ), who went into ' suspended animation ' in 1968 ( and later disbanded ), who wore a black hackle in their rifle green dress Balmoral.

During the Peninsular War, Rifleman Thomas Plunkett of the 1st Battalion, 95th Rifles, shot the French General Auguste-Marie-François Colbert at a range that may have been even greater.

Gurkha Rifles may refer to any of a number of regiments of Gurkhas:

It has a cap band which may be coloured ( red for all Royal Regiments and Corps ), a crown ( formerly khaki, now dark blue, except for Military Police which has always been red, and the Rifles who wear Rifle Green ) which may have coloured piping or a regimental / corps colour and a patent leather peak and chinstrap.

The motto of the Royal Ulster Rifles may have the last word Quis Separabit.

Rifles or even a shotgun would be sufficient to persuade the crew to close all the hatches, and then the view from the tank is very limited ; a turret-mounted machine gun has a very slow traverse and cannot hope to fend off attackers coming from all directions.

The origins of the present Ugandan armed forces can be traced back to 1902, when the Uganda Battalion of the King's African Rifles was formed.

Talbot Mundy a contemporary of Kipling makes use of the term in " King of the Khyber Rifles " ( p. 265 ) to describe a cuckold, " And what kind of man must Rewa Gunga be who could lightly let go all the prejudices of the East and submit to what only the West has endured hitherto with any complacency -- a " tertium quid "?

The 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps ( later part of the Royal Green Jackets ) fought alongside the Sirmoor Rifles and were so impressed that following the mutiny they insisted 2nd GR be awarded the honours of adopting their distinctive rifle green uniforms with scarlet edgings and rifle regiment traditions and that they should hold the title of riflemen rather than sepoys.

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the Inquisition uses weapons called Needle Rifles or Needle Pistols that fire shards of crystallized venom that can be deadly when penetrating an unarmored or lightly armored target.

Leighton was an enthusiastic volunteer soldier, enrolling with the first group to join the 38th Middlesex ( Artists ) Rifle Volunteers ( later to be known as The Artists Rifles ) on 5th October 1860.

The Assam Rifles team assured the villagers that from now on this virgin land will be under India and the people will be protected from any enemy aggression.

It was by his command that 50 troops, including 25 Gurkhas of 1st / 9th Gurkha Rifles, 25 Pathans and Baluch of 54th Sikhs and 59th Sindh Rifles, all armed with. 303 Lee-Enfield rifles opened fire on a gathering of unarmed civilians, including women and children, at the Jallianwalla Bagh in what came to be known later as the Amritsar massacre.

Otherwise the shops will be opened by force and Rifles.

Although every subsequent single had a placing within the Top 40, it would not be until the band released " The Eton Rifles ", with Weller's very political lyrics, that they broke into the Top 10, hitting the No. 3 spot in November 1979.

Kentucky Rifles tended to be slimmer and more elegant than the later, more massive, and shorter-barreled Hawken variant rifles.

" Specially Sighted Telescopic Rifles will be issued, stated in Routine Order No. 112 by Major G. M. M. Onslow, 7th Light Horse A. I. F., dated 2nd October, 1915.

The main attack, from the north and east, was to be made by the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Edward Chaytor, which moved in line of troop columns.

All these outposts had to be cleared by the covering force, the four regiments of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade, before the main assault column could proceed up the spur to the summit.

No further advance would be made up the ravine until the 1st and 6th Gurkha Rifles would capture the post on the night of 12 – 13 May.

Unfortunately both Sharpe and his new colleagues find it difficult to adjust to Sharpe's new status and role, and his superiors in the 74th arrange for him to be transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles Regiment.

This regiment, which later became the 1st King George ’ s Own Gurkha Rifles, saw action at the Malaun fort under the leadership of Lieutenant Lawtie, who reported to Ochterlony that he " had the greatest reason to be satisfied with their exertions ".

The new force was initially to be called the North West Mounted Rifles, but this proposal was rejected as sounding too militaristic in nature, which Macdonald feared would antagonize both aboriginals and Americans ; however, the force was organized along the lines of a cavalry regiment in the British Army, and was to wear red uniforms.

Rifles can be fired from firing points at either 100, 200, 300 or.

Additionally, it should be noted that the honour was not awarded to regiments that had been disbanded, e. g. 11th Gurkha Rifles, and that not all units that took part in the war were awarded the battle honour, e. g. 1 / 5th Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment.

It particularly attracted recruits from public schools and universities ; on this basis, following the outbreak of the First World War, a number of enlisted members of the Artists Rifles were selected to be officers in other units of the 7th Division.

Some of the Pattern 1903 Sporting Rifles were made in the. 370 Express calibre, while some prototype chambered for. 450 /. 500 Nitro is known to exist.

Rifles chambered for the new 224 Wby Magnum were dubbed " Varmintmaster.

Rifles chambered for this wildcat cartridge, with a cartridge overall length of 105 mm ( 4. 13 in ), and equipped with custom made 178 mm ( 1: 7 inch ) progressive twist rate 900 mm ( 35. 43 in ) long barrels with a 2 ° cone-angle ( the standard C. I. P.

Rifles are currently ( 2007 ) being chambered in. 22 Hornet by Ruger, New England Firearms, CZ and various other mass-market manufacturers.

Although the units of the Frontier Corps operated under a variety of titles, from Rifles to Militia to Scouts, it was the latter term that came to stand as the generic term, and as new units were formed, it was the word ' Scouts ' that became fixed and formalised for the regimental titles.

In Egypt the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and Australian Light Horse of Anzac Mounted Division operating as mounted infantry, drove German and Ottoman forces back from Romani to Magdhaba and Rafa and out of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsular in 1916.

Accordingly, the former units of the King's African Rifles were transformed to the Kenyan Military Forces and the Independent Kenyan Government was legally empowered to assign names to the units as deemed necessary with effect from midnight, 12 December 1963.

A new battalion, 1st Kenya Rifles, was created entirely from 340 Lanet soldiers who had been cleared of participation in the mutiny by the Kenyan Criminal Investigations Division ( CID ).

Rifles derived from military designs have long been popular with civilian shooters.

On 9 October 1962 Uganda became independent from the United Kingdom, with 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles becoming the Uganda Rifles.

The armed forces more than doubled, from 700 to 1, 500, and the government created 2nd Battalion, Uganda Rifles, stationed at the northeastern town of Moroto.

An extract from In Parenthesis read by Jones himself in 1967 appears on the audiobook CD Artists Rifles.

On the left flank, the Canadian 2nd Division particularly with the efforts of the French Canadian 22nd Battalion ( the ' Van Doos ') and the 25th Battalion ( the Nova Scotia Rifles ) captured the village of Courcelette after heavy fighting, with some assistance from two tanks.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

The Prime Minister first announced the force as the North West Mounted Rifles but concern from the United States of America fearing a military build up led the Prime Minister to rename the force the North-West Mounted Police ( NWMP ) when formed in 1873.

The Parachute Regiment recruits nationally, while the Royal Gurkha Rifles recruits most of its serving personnel from Nepal, and the Royal Gibraltar Regiment recruits in Gibraltar.

In 1846, with the arrival of USS Congress, Frémont was appointed lieutenant colonel of the California Battalion, also called U. S. Mounted Rifles, which he had helped form with his survey crew and volunteers from the Bear Flag Republic, now totaling 428 men.

the Navarro Rifles constituted an 87-man Confederate infantry formed in July 1861 Corsicana from area volunteers.

The indie rock band The Rifles are from Walthamstow.

The failure of the KAU to attain any significant reforms or redress of grievances from the colonial authorities shifted the political initiative to younger and more militant figures within the African trade union movement, among the squatters on the settler estates in the Rift Valley and in KAU branches in Nairobi and the Kikuyu districts of central province The Agikuyu soldiers who had come back from the second world war as King African Rifles ( KAR ), having gained military skills resulted to war to liberate Agikuyu from British oppression and colonisation.

In 1971 the 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Gurkha Rifles moved to Queen Elizabeth Barracks at Church Crookham, Hampshire, from where they became the first Gurkhas to mount the Queen's Guard.

The inscription is a quotation from Sir Ralph Turner, a former officer in the 3rd Gurkha Rifles.

Between 1901 and 1906, the Gurkha regiments were renumbered from the 1st to the 10th and redesignated as the Gurkha Rifles.

Several hundred soldiers were quickly deployed from nearby Toronto, many of them coming from The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada.