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    The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States...
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  • and Lewis were finally able to snare drug kingpin Luther Mahoney for drug trafficking and murder, Lewis beat up Mahoney until he grabbed Lewis' gun. However...
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    machine gun, with the Chauchat and Lewis gun soon following) saw their first major use in World War I, along with heavy use of large-caliber machine guns. The...
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    Patrick; Fleming, Mike Jr. (August 22, 2016). "Jon Hamm, Ed Harris & Lewis Pullman Join Top Gun: Maverick Team". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original...
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    When the Lewis Gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry units, the Vickers guns were redefined as heavy machine guns, withdrawn...
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  • Scotland Lewis Bridge (disambiguation) Lewis chessmen, medieval chess pieces discovered on the Isle of Lewis Lewis County (disambiguation) Lewis gun, a machine...
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    Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time. The original...
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    Isaac Newton Lewis (October 12, 1858 – November 9, 1931) was a United States Army officer and the inventor of the Lewis gun. Lewis was born in New Salem...
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    A. Guns are an American glam metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1983. The lineup currently consists of Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Phil Lewis (lead...
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  • rifle) Pattern 1914 Enfield (Used as sniper rifle) Lewis gun Bren light machine gun Vickers machine gun No.36M Mk.I grenade No.69 Mk.I grenade (Concussion...
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    M1909 machine gun, the Beardmore–Farquhar rifle, and the Lewis itself. Although the BAR was recommended, the sheer number of Lewis guns available and...
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    16 minutes 30 seconds Armament Guns: 2 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns; up to 2 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis guns Bombs: Up to four 25 lb bombs....
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    rifle caliber ammunition such as 8mm Mauser or .30-06 Springfield. The Lewis gun, which weighed 27 lb (12.3 kg), was commonly used with a 47-round drum...
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  • The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. The...
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  • M1910 Machine guns Colt–Browning M1895/14 Browning M1917 Hotchkiss Mk I Lewis Mk I Madsen machine gun Maxim M1884 Vickers machine gun Grenades No.1 grenade...
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    A heavy machine gun (HMG) is significantly larger than light, medium or general-purpose machine guns. HMGs are typically too heavy to be man-portable (carried...
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    A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry...
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    Vickers F.B.5 (redirect from Gun Bus)
    biplane of the First World War. Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first...
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    FG 42 (redirect from Airplane Gun)
    copied from the Lewis gun) and sheet metal and plastic construction were copied by the US Army when they developed the M60 machine gun. At the time of...
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    the starboard gun could fire straight ahead. The Female had five Lewis guns but no 6-pounders. The decision to standardise on the Lewis gun was due to the...
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    powered nose turret, mounting a Lewis gun. Rotation was handled by pneumatic motors while elevation and depression of the gun used hydraulic rams. The pilot's...
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    replace the Lewis gun on board Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Launches and other light craft, from 1942. MG 81 machine gun ShKAS machine gun Weeks, John,...
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    machine gun (‹See Tfd›Russian: Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный, romanized: Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny literally: "Degtyaryov's infantry machine gun") or DP-27/DP-28...
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    pilot sitting above and behind. The observer was armed with a .303 in Lewis machine gun firing forward on a specially designed, "witches broomstick" mounting...
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    Girardoni air rifle (category Air guns)
    repeaters, making it very likely that Lewis's gun was a Girandoni, the only repeating airgun of the time. Lewis stated in his journals that he purchased the...
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  • Guns - Maschinengewehre". geocities.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 12 January 2022. Browning M1919 Vickers VGO Lewis gun/Type...
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  • was sheathed in sheet metal. Huot copied the cooling system from the Lewis Gun, then standard in British Army service. It fed from a 25-round drum magazine...
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    Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King. The...
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    population of emus employed Royal Australian Artillery soldiers armed with Lewis guns—leading the media to adopt the name "Emu War" when referring to the incident...
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    used on the Lewis gun, Vickers K, Bren gun (only used in anti-aircraft mountings), Degtyaryov light machine gun, and American-180 submachine gun. A highly...
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