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81 relations: American Rifleman, Ammunition, AR-15 style rifle, Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, Benchrest shooting, Biathlon, Blowback (firearms), Bolt thrust, Bowling pin shooting, Boy Scouts of America, Cannelure, Cartridge (firearms), Central Intelligence Agency, Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego), Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives, External ballistics, Francis Gary Powers, Full metal jacket bullet, Gun barrel, Handgun, Heeled bullet, High Standard HDM, Hollow-point bullet, Jokela school shooting, Kauhajoki school shooting, List of rimfire cartridges, M1911 pistol, Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America), Metallic silhouette shooting, Muzzle velocity, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Non-lethal weapon, NRA Precision Pistol, Office of Strategic Services, Pest (organism), Pest control, Pistol, Plinking, Project Appleseed, Proof test, Rat-shot, Recoil, Revolver, Rifle, Rifling, Rimfire ammunition, Ruger 10/22, Ruger Standard, Self-defense, ..., Shooting sports, Shotgun, Shotgun shell, Silencer (firearms), Skeet shooting, Smoothbore, Sonic boom, Speed of sound, Stevens Arms, Submachine gun, Table of handgun and rifle cartridges, Terminal ballistics, Times-News (Idaho), Tracer ammunition, Transonic, Trap shooting, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, United States Navy SEALs, .22 BB, .22 caliber, .22 CB, .22 Extra Long, .22 Long, .22 Short, .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, .220 Rook, .25 ACP, 2008–13 United States ammunition shortage, 4-H, 5 mm caliber. Expand index (31 more) »
American Rifleman
American Rifleman is a United States-based monthly shooting and firearms interest publication, owned by the National Rifle Association (NRA).
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Ammunition
Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.
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AR-15 style rifle
An AR-15 style rifle is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on the Colt AR-15 design.
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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C., as they were leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
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Benchrest shooting
Benchrest shooting is a shooting sport in which very accurate and precise rifles are shot at paper targets.
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Biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
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Blowback (firearms)
Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gas created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
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Bolt thrust
Bolt thrust or breech pressure is a term used in internal ballistics and firearms (whether small arms or artillery) that describes the amount of rearward force exerted by the propellant gases on the bolt or breech of a firearm action or breech when a projectile is fired.
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Bowling pin shooting
Bowling pin shooting is a shooting sport (primarily for handguns) in which the competitors race against one another to knock standard bowling pins from a table in the shortest elapsed time.
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Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.
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Cannelure
A cannelure is a groove or channel around ammunition, either bullets or cartridge cases. The cannelure may be pressed into or cast with the bullet or case.
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Cartridge (firearms)
A cartridge is a type of firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shots or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
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Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego)
The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States.
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Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives
The Commission internationale permanente pour l'épreuve des armes à feu portatives ("Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms" – commonly abbreviated as C.I.P.) is an international organisation which sets standards for safety testing of firearms.
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External ballistics
External ballistics or exterior ballistics is the part of ballistics that deals with the behavior of a projectile in flight.
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Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)—often referred to as simply Gary Powers—was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
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Full metal jacket bullet
A full metal jacket (FMJ) bullet is a small-arms projectile consisting of a soft core (often lead) encased in a shell of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel, or less commonly a steel alloy.
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Gun barrel
A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type ranged weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces and air guns.
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Handgun
A handgun is a short-barreled firearm designed to be fired with only one hand.
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Heeled bullet
A heeled bullet is a specific design of bullet where the internal diameter of the barrel is often, but not always, the same diameter as the cartridge case, and the bullet has a step at the rear to allow it to fit inside the case.
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High Standard HDM
The High Standard HDM is a semiautomatic pistol equipped with an integral silencer.
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Hollow-point bullet
A hollow-point bullet is an expanding bullet that has a pit or hollowed out shape in its tip often intended to cause the bullet to expand upon entering a target as it penetrates and disrupts more tissue.
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Jokela school shooting
The Jokela school shooting occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland.
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Kauhajoki school shooting
The Kauhajoki school shooting occurred on 23 September 2008, at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in the former province of Western Finland.
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List of rimfire cartridges
List of rimfire cartridges by calibre.
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M1911 pistol
The M1911 is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated pistol chambered for the.45 ACP cartridge.
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Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America)
Merit badges are awards earned by youth members of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), based on activities within the area of study by completing a list of periodically updated requirements.
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Metallic silhouette shooting
Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at steel targets representing game animals at varying distances, seeking to knock the metal target over.
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Muzzle velocity
Muzzle velocity is the speed of a projectile at the moment it leaves the muzzle of a gun.
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National Shooting Sports Foundation
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is an American national trade association for the firearms industry that is based in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Non-lethal weapon
Non-lethal weapons, also called less-lethal weapons, less-than-lethal weapons, non-deadly weapons, compliance weapons, or pain-inducing weapons are weapons intended to be less likely to kill a living target than conventional weapons such as knives and firearms.
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NRA Precision Pistol
NRA Precision Pistol, formerly known as NRA Conventional Pistol, is a national bullseye shooting discipline organized in the United States by NRA.
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Office of Strategic Services
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Pest (organism)
A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns including crops, livestock, and forestry.
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Pest control
Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest, a member of the animal kingdom that impacts adversely on human activities.
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Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun.
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Plinking
Plinking refers to informal target shooting done for pleasure typically at non-standard targets such as tin cans, logs, soda bottles, or any other homemade or naturally occurring target.
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Project Appleseed
Project Appleseed is a rifle marksmanship clinic that focuses on teaching traditional rifle marksmanship from standing, sitting/kneeling, and prone positions over a two-day weekend shooting clinic for what is termed an "Appleseed".
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Proof test
A proof test is a form of stress test to demonstrate the fitness of a load-bearing structure.
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Rat-shot
Rat-shot (or snake shot) is very small lead shot (typically #12 – 1.3 mm (0.05")) loaded in cartridges for use in rifled firearms as opposed to more traditional smoothbores such as shotguns.
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Recoil
Recoil (often called knockback, kickback or simply kick) is the backward movement of a gun when it is discharged.
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Revolver
A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing.
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Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
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Rifling
In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.
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Rimfire ammunition
Rimfire is a method of ignition for metallic firearm cartridges as well as the cartridges themselves.
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Ruger 10/22
The Ruger 10/22 is a series of semi-automatic rifles produced by American firearm manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co., chambered for the.22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge.
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Ruger Standard
The Ruger Standard Model is a rimfire semi-automatic pistol introduced in 1949 as the first product manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co., and was the founding member of a product line of.22 Long Rifle cartridge handguns, including its later iterations: the MK II, MK III, and MK IV.
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Self-defense
Self-defence (self-defense in some varieties of English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.
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Shooting sports
Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in using various types of ranged weapons, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, rifles and shotguns) and bows/crossbows.
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Shotgun
A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.
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Shotgun shell
A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge typically loaded with multiple metallic "shot", which are small, generally spherical projectiles.
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Silencer (firearms)
A silencer, suppressor, sound suppressor, or sound moderator is a device that reduces the sound intensity and muzzle flash when a firearm or air gun is discharged.
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Skeet shooting
Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants, using shotguns, attempt to break clay targets mechanically flung into the air from two fixed stations at high speed from a variety of angles.
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Smoothbore
A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.
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Sonic boom
A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created whenever an object traveling through the air travels faster than the speed of sound.
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Speed of sound
The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium.
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Stevens Arms
Stevens Arms was an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee Falls, MA.
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Submachine gun
A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges.
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Table of handgun and rifle cartridges
Table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
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Terminal ballistics
Terminal ballistics (also known as wound ballistics), a sub-field of ballistics, is the study of the behavior and effects of a projectile when it hits and transfers its energy to a target.
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Times-News (Idaho)
The Times-News is a US daily newspaper serving the Twin Falls, Idaho, area.
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Tracer ammunition
Tracer ammunition (tracers) are bullets or cannon caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base.
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Transonic
In aeronautics, transonic (or transsonic) flight is flying at or near the speed of sound (at sea level under average conditions), relative to the air through which the vehicle is traveling.
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Trap shooting
Trapshooting is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting (shooting shotguns at clay targets).
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Twin Falls, Idaho
Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly abbreviated as the Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command.
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.22 BB
.22 BB Cap (Bulleted Breech Cap) is a variety of.22 caliber rimfire ammunition.
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.22 caliber
The 22 caliber, or 5.6mm caliber, is a small, extremely common size of ammunition, fitted to firearms with a bore diameter of 0.22 in (5.6 mm).
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.22 CB
.22 CB Cap (Conical Ball Cap) is a variety of.22 caliber rimfire ammunition which has a very small propellant charge (usually no gunpowder, just the primer), resulting in a low muzzle velocity of between 350 and 853 ft per second (107 and 260 m/s).
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.22 Extra Long
The.22 Extra Long is a.22 in (5.6 mm) American rimfire rifle and handgun cartridge.
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.22 Long
.22 Long is a variety of.22 caliber (5.6 mm) rimfire ammunition.
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.22 Short
.22 Short is a variety of.22 caliber (5.6 mm) rimfire ammunition.
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.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire
The.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, also called.22 WMR,.22 Magnum,.22 MRF, or.22 Mag, is a rimfire cartridge.
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.220 Rook
The.220 Rook, also known as the.220 Long Centrefire, is an obsolete British centerfire rifle cartridge.
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.25 ACP
The.25 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) (6.35×16mmSR) is a semi-rimmed, straight-walled centerfire pistol cartridge introduced by John Browning in 1905 alongside the Fabrique Nationale M1905 pistol.
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2008–13 United States ammunition shortage
The 2008–13 United States ammunition shortage refers to a shortage of civilian small arms ammunition in the United States that started in late 2008 and continued through most or all of 2010, with an additional shortage beginning in December 2012 and continuing throughout 2013.
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4-H
4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".
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5 mm caliber
This article lists firearm cartridges which have a bullet in the to caliber range.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Long_Rifle
