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    The ColtBrowning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that...
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  • Browning machine guns are a family of machine gun designs by John Browning, a prolific weapon designer. These include: M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun...
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    various models in 7.92 Kjellman machine gun Bren Gun FM-24/29 Lahti-Saloranta M/26 M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun ZB vz. 26 Chauchat M1918 BAR Citations...
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  • 000, and Colt 600.: 179  Until the start of World War I, the Army had used a variety of older machine guns, including the Browning-designed M1895 "Potato...
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    (BAR) M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun air-cooled gas-operated machine gun M1917 Browning machine gun water-cooled recoil-operated machine gun M1919 Browning...
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  • The Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (commonly shortened to Colt IAR or IAR6940), is a Light machine gun designed by Phil Hinckley and manufactured by...
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    the U.S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun using the 6mm Lee Navy round, which they employed to defeat...
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    Nagant M1895 is a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist Léon Nagant for the Russian Empire. The Nagant M1895 was chambered...
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    Hill. The M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun or "Potato Digger" was built by Colt. The ColtBrowning was one of the first gas-operated machine guns, originally...
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  • with spitzer (pointed) bullets. The M1895 was also the last of the lever-action rifles to be designed by John Browning, and featured a rear locking bolt...
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    FN M1900 (redirect from Browning M1900)
    a slide. John Browning started his work on semi-automatic pistols in 1894, when he mostly finalized the M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun. He initially...
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  • lever-action rifle M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun - a machine gun 10-inch gun M1895 - a U.S. Army coast artillery piece 12-inch gun M1895 - a U.S. Army coast...
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    rifle Maxim gun Mendoza HM-3 MG 08 MG 13 MG 17 machine gun MG 131 machine gun M2 Browning machine gun M16 rifle M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun Parabellum...
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  • Browning M1918 Colt-Browning M1895 Browning M1917A1 Browning M1919A4 Browning M2 Lewis Gun Type 3 heavy machine gun (Captured) Type 11 light machine gun...
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    multiple-barrel machine guns and the single-barrel Maxim guns. By the end of the 19th century, many new designs such as the M1895 ColtBrowning and Hotchkiss...
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    - Small Arms Review". 26 September 2011. Chapter 16: Revelli Machine Gun The Machine Gun "HK 421 – Heckler & Koch stell neues Maschinengewehr im Kaliber...
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    powered by air or recoil, or a combination of the two (e.g., the Colt 1895 and M1895, Hotchkiss M1909, PM M1910, Fiat–Revelli Modello 1914, Fiat–Revelli...
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  • gun PM M1910 Degtyaryov machine gun M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle Maxim–Tokarev Madsen machinegun Chauchat Ckm wz. 30 Wz.28 BAR M1895 ColtBrowning machine...
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  • a weapon with firepower intermediate between the rifle and the light machine gun, but with mobility comparable to a rifle. His decision to adapt his semi-automatic...
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    machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was...
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  • (Switzerland – revolver – 1882) M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun "Potato Digger" (USA – heavy machine gun – c.1895) M1895 Lee Navy (USA – rifle, bolt-action...
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    Designed as a less expensive alternative to the upscale Colt .357 and the later Colt Python and Colt King Cobra, it was marketed to law enforcement agencies...
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    commercial passenger model by installing a forward-firing M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun operated by the front passenger. It featured an armored shield...
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    by the gunsmith Hyman Lebman - known for converting Colt Government 38 super handguns to machine pistols - to be capable of automatic fire. In addition...
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  • Smith & Wesson Model 3 (category Guns of the American West)
    Lawman, Tuolumne "Smith & Wesson's #3, Colt's Biggest Rival in the Old West". Archived 2008-02-28 at the Wayback Machine. Sam Hane's Western History. Service...
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  • variants) Machine guns M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun M1917 Browning machine gun M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle...
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    example of lever-action reloading on automatic firearms is the M1895 ColtBrowning machine gun. This weapon had a swinging lever beneath its barrel that was...
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    all-new service rifles (M1892/96/98 Krag and M1895 Navy Lee), as well as a series of revolvers by Colt and Smith & Wesson for the Army and Navy, were...
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    Arisaka cartridge already in use with the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the Type 97 light machine gun. However, not all units received the new weapon, and...
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    for the numerous new technologies that defined World War I, including machine guns, wire obstacles and artillery that had greatly improved. These changes...
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