This carbine ( under $140, about $15 more for a deluxe grade ) has an 18-1/2-inch barrel and was obviously inspired by the popularity of last year's Model 760 pump with a short-barrel.

A carbine was typically no longer than a sheathed sabre, both arranged to hang with their tops clear of the rider ’ s elbows and bottoms clear of the horse ’ s legs.

A notable weapon developed towards the end of the American Civil War by the Union was the Spencer carbine.

One of the most popular and recognizable carbines was the Winchester lever-action carbine, with several versions using revolver cartridges.

The US M1 Carbine was more of a traditional carbine in that it was significantly shorter and lighter, with a 457. 2 mm ( 18 in.

However, the semi-automatic M1 carbine was produced in a 10-to-1 ratio to the M2.

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

Another example is the DeLisle carbine, a suppressed special operations carbine that was chambered for. 45 ACP.

In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.

The semi-automatic only version of the Sterling submachine gun was also officially called a " carbine ".

* The Hall rifle: The United States ' first breechloading cavalry carbine, the Hall was introduced in 1819.

* The Rising breech carbine: An unusual action produced by Bilharz, Hall and Co. for the southern Confederacy, the rising breech's underlever caused the breechblock including the chamber to slide vertically above the line of the barrel, the reverse of a falling-block ; the chamber was loaded from the front with a paper cartridge.

During the shootings, Harris carried a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun, which he discharged 25 times and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines, which was fired 96 times.

On April 15, 1974, she was photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank at 1450 Noriega Street in San Francisco.

The first percussion firearm produced for the US military was the percussion carbine version ( c. 1833 ) of the M1819 Hall rifle.

During the American Civil War, the bolt-action Palmer carbine was patented in 1863, and by 1865, 1000 were purchased for use as cavalry weapons.

* Model 1938 Carbine: A carbine based on the M1891 / 30 design that was produced from 1939 to 1945 at the Izhevsk arsenal and in 1940 and 1944 at Tula.

Essentially a M1891 / 30 with a shortened barrel and shortened stock ( the M38 is in overall length versus 48 inches overall length for the Model 91 / 30 ), this carbine did not accept a bayonet ; was in fact designed so the standard Model 91 / 30 bayonet would not fit it.

The M38 was replaced by the M44 carbine in 1944.

* Model 1944 Carbine: This carbine was introduced into service in late 1944 ( with 50, 000 service-test examples produced in 1943 ) and remained in production until 1955.

The concept was first used in bolt action rifles such as the Thorneycroft carbine of 1901, although the increased distance from hand grip to bolt handle meant the decreased length had to be weighed against the increased time required to fire.

The M1 carbine ( formally the United States Carbine, Caliber. 30, M1 ) is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U. S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants.

A Carabinier ( also sometimes spelled Carabineer or Carbineer ) ( Carabinero in Spanish, Carabiniere in Italian ) was originally a cavalry soldier armed with a carbine ( a short version of a musket ).

The original idea was based on the Knight's Armament Masterkey ( KAC Masterkey ) system, which dates back to the 1980s and originally comprised a shortened Remington 870 shotgun mounted under an M16 rifle or M4 carbine.

The INSAS system was originally planned to have three component weapons: a standard rifle, a carbine, and a squad automatic rifle ( LMG ), all chambered for 5. 56x45mm NATO ammunition.

On March 22, 2010 about 35 civilian owners of the Type 97A carbine originally imported by Lever Arms of BC ( The only version ever available for sale ) were sent notice by the RCMP indicating that status of their firearm have been changed to 12. 2 prohibited ( Fully automatic ), and owners without such a firearm license have 30 days to turn in their Type 97A firearm to either individual or business that has such a license, or to police for destruction.

In both civilian use and among the military's lighter armored soldiers, it is common to use a carbine.

Stacked against this is mainly the amount of urban warfare that is required, which favors lighter carbine weapons.

The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons ( generally rifles ) with barrels less than 457. 2 mm ( 18 inches ).

Parachutists were added to the list of intended users after Ordnance received a request for a lighter and more compact infantry arm for airborne forces, and a folding-stock ( M1A1 ) version of the carbine was introduced in May 1942 to meet this requirement.

The prototypes for the carbine competition were chambered for a new cartridge, the. 30 Carbine, a smaller and lighter. 30 caliber ( 7. 62 mm ) round very different from the. 30-06 in both design and performance.

The 16th century saw creation of lighter cavalry known as ' Kozacy ' ( singular ' Kozak ' hence ' towarzysz kozacki ') until 1648 and then known as ' Pancerni ' from 1650s on until 1770s ) in the Kingdom of Poland or ' Petyhorcy ' in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( the actual subject of the illustration )-whose offensive armament included a shorter ' demi-lance ' (' dzida ') or ' rohatyna ', bow and arrows, war-ax, sabre in the 16th century and a pistol or two, a carbine in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The carbine was considered a more appropriate firearm for a horseman than a full-length musket, since it was lighter and easier to handle while on horseback.

A lighter and shorter carbine version for the cavalry was introduced, and a number of volunteer associations procured their own models, including the Duke of Cumberland's Corps of Sharpshooters, which ordered models with a 33-inch barrel, in August 1803.

The Spencer carbine was a shorter and lighter version.

The Berdan II was produced in four variants: an infantry rifle, the lighter and slightly shorter dragoon rifle, a cossack rifle with a button trigger and no trigger guard, and a cavalry carbine.

The word is a shortened form of " Karabinerhaken ", German for " spring hook for a carbine ".

Translate as Carbine 98 Short or a shortened carbine of the Gewehr 98

FN FAL rifle-( left ) full size, ( right ) carbine / paratrooper variant with a folding stock and shortened barrel

In 2010, the M16 began to be phased out in the U. S. Army and is being replaced by the M4 carbine, which is itself a shortened derivative of the M16A2.

The demand for more compact weapons for cavalrymen led to the carbine, or shortened rifle.

Large numbers of these captured Chassepot rifles were converted to 11 mm Mauser metallic cartridge and shortened to carbine size in order to serve with German cavalry and artillery until the early 1880s.

The third and final model had the barrel shortened from 32 to 30 inches, and the calibre reduced to. 653, which allowed the rifle to fire a. 625 calibre carbine bullet, with a greased patch to grip the now-seven rectangular grooves in the barrel.

About 7, 000 short carbines with the Swedish designation " karbin m / 1870 " were also made, and in addition to that about 9, 600 " gevär m / 1864-68 " were shortened to carbine length in 1886-87 and given the designation " karbin m / 1864-68-85 ".

The AK-105 is a shortened carbine version of the AK-74M rifle, which in turn was derived from the original AK-47 design and its AK-74 successor.