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Israel Weapon Industries
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Israel Weapon Industries, formerly the Magen division of the Israel Military Industries Ltd. is an Israeli firearms manufacturer. Formerly owned by the State of Israel, in 2005, the Small Arms Division of IMI was privatized and renamed IWI, IWI is one of the worlds most famous and bestselling military arms manufacturers. The Magen division rose to prominence in the 1950s, as the creator of the Uzi, of which over 10 million would be produced. Subsequent well known military exports have included the Negev light machine gun, Galil assault rifle, Tavor assault rifle, IWI develops and manufactures guns used by armies and law enforcement agencies around the world. IWIs weapon systems include the Uzi submachine gun, Jericho and Barak handguns, the Galil is a compact assault rifle. The Negev is IWIs main light machine gun, the Jericho 941 is a semi-automatic pistol. The Tavor is an assault rifle. In the 1980s an American firearms designer, Magnum Research, contracted IWI to re-design and manufacture a Magnum caliber, the result was the Desert Eagle. In 2014, IWI launched the IWI DAN.338 sniper rifle, the rifle is designed for light weight and compact carry. The chassis is made of alloy, the heavy fluted free floating barrel is 737 mm long. The new rifle weighs 6.9 Kg without magazine, ammo, telescope, the IWI DAN is a bolt action sniper rifle chambered in the 0.338 Lapua Magnum, with effective range of 1200 meters and sub-MOA accuracy. In 2014, IWIs DAN.338 sniper rifle was selected as the new sniper rifle of the British Armys SAS special forces unit, the DAN sniper rifle has been used by the SAS to kill ISIS commanders in Syria and Iraq. IWI collaborates with the Metropolitan College of New York in New York City, all students attend an intensive seminar in Israel covering Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism topics with top security and military experts. Military equipment of Israel List of modern armament manufacturers Science and technology in Israel Economy of Israel Official website
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Kahr Arms
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Kahr Arms is an American small arms manufacturer founded by Kook Jin Justin Moon, who currently serves as CEO and President. It is currently under the Kahr Firearms Group, a USA based firearms manufacturer, the company specializes in compact and mid-size semi-automatic pistols chambered for popular cartridges, including.380 ACP, 9mm Luger.40 S&W and.45 ACP. Kahr pistols feature polymer or stainless steel frames, single-stack magazines, the Kahr Firearms Group Company headquarters is in Greeley, Pennsylvania and the Kahr manufacturing facility is located in Worcester, Massachusetts. From the age of 14, Justin Moon enjoyed shooting guns, at age 18, Moon got a license to carry a handgun, co-signed by one of his older brothers, but he was not satisfied with the small calibers available in compact handguns. I had been licensed to carry in New York State since I was 18 and had looked for an ultra-compact 9mm pistol, to my chagrin, I could not find a pistol with the quality of construction and features in design which I felt were appropriate for a carry gun. Therefore, I decided to design an ultra-compact 9-mm, by his junior year of college, he decided to design one himself. Now Kahr manufactures Auto-Ordnances line of weapons, including a long-barreled rifle version of the famous Tommy Gun. Kahr offers its line of pistols at a time of significant liberalization of concealed weapons laws in many U. S. states. Since the 1990s, many states have passed laws, as promoted by the American National Rifle Association. In 1994 the U. S. government banned manufacture and importation of magazines with more than a 10-round capacity. These were the so-called high-capacity magazines, which became legal to manufacture and import in most states in September 2004. This change in federal law rendered many staggered-magazine pistol models less popular in the American market and they were now overly large in light of their newly mandated 10-shot limit. Kahr was at the forefront, offering small, well-made pistols with magazine capacities of up to eight rounds of 9mm or. 40-caliber ammunition. These single-stack magazines allow for slender, compact pistols that have proven popular with the buying public, since late 2003 or very early in 2004, Kahr has changed from offering a Limited Lifetime Warranty on their pistols to one of only five years duration. In 2003 the New York Daily News reported that the Kahr K9 was popular as a weapon with New York City police officers. In June 2010, Kahr bought Magnum Research, which markets the Desert Eagle, on July 1,2013 the Kahr Arms company announced that it was leaving New York state because of the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act. Kahr has purchased 620 acres in Pike County, Pennsylvania, during the Shot Show in January 2015, the Kahr Arms company changed its name to the Kahr Firearms Group. Kahr Arms is currently under the Kahr Firearms Group as a firearms manufacturer, alongside Magnum Research
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.45 ACP
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The.45 ACP, or.45 Auto is a handgun cartridge designed by John Browning in 1905, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol. After successful military trials it was adopted along with the Browning.45 Colt handgun as the.45 M1911 cartridge, the handgun was designated M1911 handgun. The U. S. Cavalry had been buying and testing various handguns in the late 1890s, the.45 Colt Single Action Army had largely been replaced, even by some double-action versions of the same caliber. The Army had fielded some double-action revolvers in.38 Long Colt and they determined the.38 caliber round was significantly less effective than the.45 Colt against determined opponents such as the Moro juramentado warriors encountered in the Moro Rebellion. This experience, and the Thompson–LaGarde Tests of 1904 led the Army and they noted, however, training was critical to make sure a soldier could score a hit in a vulnerable part of the body. The result from Colt was the Model 1905 and the new.45 ACP cartridge. The resulting. 45-caliber cartridge, named the.45 ACP, was similar in performance to the.45 Schofield cartridge, by 1906, bids from six makers were submitted, among them Brownings design, submitted by Colt. Only DWM, Savage, and Colt made the first cut, DWM, which submitted two Parabellum P08s chambered in.45 ACP, withdrew from testing after the first round of tests, for unspecified reasons. In the second round of evaluations in 1910, the Colt design passed the testing with no failures. The Colt pistol was adopted as the Model 1911, the cartridge/pistol combination was quite successful but not satisfactory for U. S. military purposes. The very first production, at Frankford Arsenal, was marked F A811, the cartridge was designed by John Browning for Colt, but the most influential person in selecting the cartridge was Army Ordnance member Gen. John T. Thompson. Thompson insisted on a real man stopper pistol, following the showing of the Armys.38 Long Colt pistols during the Philippine–American War. The.45 ACP has 1.62 ml cartridge case capacity.45 ACP maximum C. I. P. The common rifling twist rate for this cartridge is 406 mm,6 grooves, Ø lands =11.23 mm, Ø grooves =11.43 mm, land width =3.73 mm and the primer type is large pistol. The cartridge headspaces on the mouth of the case at the L3 datum reference, according to Commission Internationale Permanente pour lEpreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives rulings, the.45 ACP cartridge case can handle up to 131.000 MPa Pmax piezo pressure. In CIP-regulated countries every pistol cartridge combination has to be proofed at 130% of this maximum CIP pressure to certify for sale to consumers and this means that.45 ACP chambered arms in C. I. P. Regulated countries are proof tested at 170.30 MPa PE piezo pressure. The SAAMI pressure limit for the.45 ACP is set at 21,000 psi piezo pressure, while the SAAMI pressure limit for the.45 ACP +P is set at 23,000 psi, piezo pressure
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Action (firearms)
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In firearms terminology, an action is the mechanism that handles the ammunition or the method by which that mechanism works. Breech-loading weapons have actions, actions are not present on muzzleloaders. The mechanism that fires a muzzle-loader is called the lock, actions can be categorized in several ways, including single action versus double action, break action versus bolt action, and others. The term action can also short, long, and magnum if it is in reference to the length of the rifle’s receiver. The short action rifle usually can accommodate a cartridge length of 2.8 in or smaller, the long action rifle can accommodate a cartridge of 3.34 in, and the magnum action rifle can accommodate cartridges of 3.6 in, or longer in length. Manual operation is a term describing any type of firearm action that is loaded one shot at a time by the user rather than automatically. For example, break action is a form of operation using a simple hinge mechanism that is manually unlatched by the operator. These are actions wherein the breechblock lowers or drops into the receiver to open the breech, there are two principal types of dropping block, the tilting block and the falling block. In a tilting or pivoting block action, the breechblock is hinged on a pin mounted at the rear, when the lever is operated, the block tilts down and forward, exposing the chamber. The best-known pivoting block designs are the Peabody, the Peabody–Martini, the original Peabody rifles, manufactured by the Providence Tool Company, used a manually cocked side-hammer. The 1871 Martini–Henry which replaced the trapdoor Snider–Enfield was the standard British Army rifle of the later Victorian era, charles H. Ballards self-cocking tilting-block action was produced by the Marlin Firearms Company from 1875, and earned a superlative reputation among long-range Creedmoor target shooters. Surviving Marlin Ballards are today highly prized by collectors, especially those mounted in the elaborate Swiss-style Schützen stocks of the day. A falling-block action is a firearm action in which a solid metal breechblock slides vertically in grooves cut into the breech of the weapon. Examples of firearms using the falling block action are the Sharps rifle, in a rolling block action the breechblock takes the form of a part-cylinder, with a pivot pin through its axis. The operator rotates or rolls the block to open and close the breech, it is a simple, rugged, a break action is a type of firearm where the barrel are hinged and can be broken open to expose the breech. The earliest metallic-cartridge breechloaders designed for military issue began as conversions of muzzle-loading rifle-muskets. The upper rear portion of the barrel was filed or milled away, an internal angled firing pin allowed the re-use of the rifles existing side-hammer. The Allin action made by Springfield Arsenal in the US hinged forward, france countered in 1866 with its superior Chassepot rifle, also a paper-cartridge bolt action
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Magazine (firearms)
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A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm. Magazines can be removable or integral to the firearm, the magazine functions by moving the cartridges stored in the magazine into a position where they may be loaded into the chamber by the action of the firearm. The detachable magazine is often referred to as a clip, although this is technically inaccurate, magazines come in many shapes and sizes, from those of bolt-action express rifles that hold only a few rounds to drum magazines for self-loading rifles that can hold one hundred rounds or more. Various jurisdictions ban what they define as high-capacity magazines, with the increased use of semi-automatic and automatic firearms, the detachable box magazine became increasingly common. Soon after the adoption of the M1911 pistol, the magazine was settled on by the military and firearms experts. The defining difference between clips and magazines is the presence of a mechanism in a magazine, typically a spring-loaded follower. Use of the clip to refer to detachable magazines is a point of strong disagreement. The first mass-produced repeater was the Volcanic Rifle which used a bullet with the base filled with powder and primer fed into the chamber from a spring-loaded tube called a magazine. It was named after a building or room used to store ammunition, the anemic power of the Rocket Ball ammunition used in the Volcanic doomed it to limited popularity. The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action, breech-loading, tubular magazine fed rifle, designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860, it was one of the first firearms to use self-contained metallic cartridges. The Henry was introduced in the early 1860s and produced through 1866 in the United States by the New Haven Arms Company and it was adopted in small quantities by the Union in the Civil War and favored for its greater firepower than the standard issue carbine. Many later found their way West and was famed both for its use at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and being the basis for the iconic Winchester rifle which are made to this day. The Henry and Winchester rifles would go on to see service with a number of militaries including Turkey, switzerland and Italy adopted similar designs. The first magazine-fed firearm to achieve success was the Spencer repeating rifle. The Spencer used a magazine located in the butt of the gun instead of under the barrel. The Spencer was successful, but the rimfire ammunition did occasionally ignite in the magazine tube and it could also injure the user. The new bolt-action rifles began to favor with militaries in the 1880s and were often equipped with tubular magazines. The Mauser Model 1871 was originally a single-shot action that added a magazine in its 1884 update
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Israel Military Industries
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Israel Military Industries, also referred to as Taas, is an Israeli weapons manufacturer. It manufactures firearms, ammunition and military technology mainly for Israeli security forces, Israel Weapon Industriess small arms are some of the most popular in the world. The Uzi submachine gun is arguably the most popular submachine gun in the world, because of its compact nature, overall, the Uzi has the highest sales statistics of all modern submachine guns, worldwide. The IMI Galil is an assault rifle, along with integrating some other design features. The Negev is IMIs main light machine gun, the Jericho 941 is a semi-automatic pistol, while the Tavor is a bullpup assault rifle. In the 1980s an American firearms designer, Magnum Research, contracted IMI to re-design and manufacture a Magnum caliber, the result was the Desert Eagle, a very powerful handgun made famous by Hollywood and first-person shooters. Other products are created, mainly for use by the IDF, the Uzi, however, is popular with many forces worldwide, while the Galil and Tavor are popular with counter-terrorist forces. IMI has dedicated factories manufacturing ammunition for firearms, artillery, tanks, many of its products are standard NATO-compatible, but IMI also produces eastern bloc-caliber munitions. However, for the past the weapons have not been STANAG compliant, besides small arms, the IMI also produces heavy weapons. IMI engages in many projects for military vehicles. Upgrade components include firepower, survivability and maneuverability, IMI also produces a wide range of defensive products such as vehicle add-on armor packages, landmine clearing systems, and reconnaissance systems and bridges. It also produces aircraft countermeasures, such as flares, decoys and electronic control systems, some of which IMI now offers also for land-. IMI contracts its services to countries that need security and military training. The clients come to IMI in Israel for months of security, IMI also produces cluster weapons which have allegedly been proven to cause civilian casualties - in Lebanon in 2006, and in the 2008 South Ossetia war. Users claim that defective munitions were responsible, Israel Military Industries also has a partnership with the Metropolitan College of New York in New York City. Metropolitan College of New York offers a classroom based Masters In Public Administration in Emergency Management, in addition, all students go to Israel for an intensive study abroad seminar covering Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism topics with Israels top security and military experts. Israel Weapon Industries Ashot Ashkelon Military equipment of Israel List of modern armament manufacturers Official site Israeli Weapons Industry
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IMI Desert Eagle
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The IMI Desert Eagle is a semi-automatic handgun notable for chambering the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine fed, self-loading pistol. It has a design with a triangular barrel and large muzzle. Magnum Research Inc. designed and developed the Desert Eagle, the design was refined and the actual pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine. In 1998, MRI moved manufacturing back to IMI, which later reorganized under the name Israel Weapon Industries, since 2009, the Desert Eagle Pistol has been produced in the United States at MRIs Pillager, MN facility. Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research in the middle of 2010, the design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute and this established the basic layout of the Desert Eagle. A second patent application was filed in December 1985, after the design had been refined by IMI for production. The pistol is fired by a single action hammer, and has a safety switch on the slide. With the safety off, pulling the trigger releases the hammer to fall downward, hitting the firing pin, the Desert Eagle uses a gas-operated mechanism normally found in rifles, as opposed to the short recoil or blow-back designs most commonly seen in semi-automatic pistols. When a round is fired, gases are ported out through a hole in the barrel near the breech. These travel forward through a tube under the barrel, to a cylinder near the front of the barrel. The slide which acts as the carrier has a small piston on the front that fits into this cylinder. When the gases reach the cylinder they push the piston rearward, the advantage of the gas operation is that it allows the use of far more powerful cartridges than traditional semi-automatic pistol designs. Thus it allows the Desert Eagle to compete in an area that had previously dominated by magnum revolvers. Switching a Desert Eagle to another chambering requires only that the barrel, bolt assembly. Thus, a conversion to fire the other cartridges can be quickly accomplished, the most popular barrel length is 6 in, although a 10 in barrel is available. The Mark XIX barrels are machined with integral scope mounting bases, the Desert Eagle is fed with a detachable magazine. Magazine capacity is 9 rounds in.357 Magnum,8 rounds in.44 Magnum, the Desert Eagles barrel features polygonal rifling
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CZ 75
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The CZ75 is a pistol made by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod in the Czech Republic that has both semi-automatic and selective fire variants. First introduced in 1975, it is one of the original wonder nines featuring a staggered-column magazine, all-steel construction, and it is widely distributed throughout the world. It is the most common handgun in the Czech Republic, the armament industry was an important part of the interwar Czechoslovak economy and made up a large part of the countrys exports. However following the 1948 communist coup détat, all heavy industry was nationalized and was cut off from its Western export market behind the Iron Curtain, while most other Warsaw Pact countries became dependent on armaments imports from the Soviet Union, most of the Czechoslovak weaponry remained domestic. Following the Second World War, brothers Josef and František Koucký became the most important engineers of the CZUB and they participated to some extent on designing all the companys post-war weapons. Kouckýs signed their designs together, using only the surname, making it impossible to determine one of them developed particular ideas. By 1969 František Koucký was freshly retired, however the company offered him a job on designing a new 9×19mm Parabellum pistol, unlike during his previous work, this time he had a complete freedom in designing the whole gun from scratch. The design he developed was in many new and innovative. Although the model was developed for export purposes, Kouckýs domestic patents regarding the design were classified as secret patents, effectively, nobody could learn about their existence, but also nobody could register the same design in Czechoslovakia. At the same time Koucký as well as the company were prohibited from filing for patent protection abroad, consequently, a large number of other manufacturers began offering pistols based on CZ75 design. The pistol was not sold in Czechoslovakia until 1985, when it became popular among sport shooters and it was adopted by the Czech armed forces only after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The increasing popularity of the IPSC competitions in the Czech Republic led to inception of CZUBs factory team in 1992, initially, the sport shooters were using CZ 75s and CZ 85s. Stanislav Křižík designed a new version called CZ75 Champion already in 1992 and this version had a SA trigger, a muzzle brake and adjustable weights. 150 firearms were made in 9×19mm Parabellum.40 S&W. The design was modified, however its main shortcoming of the same capacity as the standard CZ75 magazines remained. The CZ75 ST and CZ75 M were introduced in 1998 and these had a different frame from standard versions allowing for more modifications. While the ST had become successful, M was not initially designed for use with collimator. The popular ST version was developed mostly with aim of prolonging its lifespan
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Czech Republic
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The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a nation state in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres with mostly temperate continental climate and it is a unitary parliamentary republic, has 10.5 million inhabitants and the capital and largest city is Prague, with over 1.2 million residents. The Czech Republic includes the territories of Bohemia, Moravia. The Czech state was formed in the late 9th century as the Duchy of Bohemia under the Great Moravian Empire, after the fall of the Empire in 907, the centre of power transferred from Moravia to Bohemia under the Přemyslid dynasty. In 1002, the duchy was formally recognized as part of the Holy Roman Empire, becoming the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1198 and reaching its greatest territorial extent in the 14th century. Following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, the whole Crown of Bohemia was gradually integrated into the Habsburg Monarchy alongside the Archduchy of Austria, the Protestant Bohemian Revolt against the Catholic Habsburgs led to the Thirty Years War. After the Battle of the White Mountain, the Habsburgs consolidated their rule, reimposed Roman Catholicism, the Czech part of Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in World War II, and was liberated in 1945 by the armies of the Soviet Union and the United States. The Czech country lost the majority of its German-speaking inhabitants after they were expelled following the war, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia won the 1946 elections. Following the 1948 coup détat, Czechoslovakia became a one-party communist state under Soviet influence, in 1968, increasing dissatisfaction with the regime culminated in a reform movement known as the Prague Spring, which ended in a Soviet-led invasion. Czechoslovakia remained occupied until the 1989 Velvet Revolution, when the communist regime collapsed, on 6 March 1990, the Czech Socialistic Republic was renamed to the Czech Republic. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved, with its constituent states becoming the independent states of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, it is a member of the United Nations, the OECD, the OSCE, and it is a developed country with an advanced, high income economy and high living standards. The UNDP ranks the country 14th in inequality-adjusted human development, the Czech Republic also ranks as the 6th most peaceful country, while achieving strong performance in democratic governance. It has the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union, the traditional English name Bohemia derives from Latin Boiohaemum, which means home of the Boii. The current name comes from the endonym Čech, spelled Cžech until the reform in 1842. The name comes from the Slavic tribe and, according to legend, their leader Čech, the etymology of the word Čech can be traced back to the Proto-Slavic root *čel-, meaning member of the people, kinsman, thus making it cognate to the Czech word člověk. The country has traditionally divided into three lands, namely Bohemia in the west, Moravia in the southeast, and Czech Silesia in the northeast. Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the Czech part of the former nation found itself without a common single-word geographical name in English, the name Czechia /ˈtʃɛkiə/ was recommended by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Tanfoglio
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Fratelli Tanfoglio S. N. C. is an Italian gun manufacturing company. Their current weapons are used extensively in sport competitions and for personal defence, Tanfoglio is located in Gardone Val Trompia - Italy, and is known for its broad sport pistol catalogue. Tanfoglio Pistols are popular firearms across Europe, they also are imported into United States by European American Armory Corporation, the Tanfoglio Company was founded in the 1940s just after World War II. The production started with gun parts such as receivers and hammers, after 8 years the firm Fabbrica darmi Tanfoglio Giuseppe was founded. As time progressed the company activity expanded and started to produce guns and handguns of their own design like Tanfoglio GT27. In the 1980s Tanfoglio started to produce clones of CZ75 made for IPSC, nowadays the Tanfoglio factory produces approximately 90,000 pistols per year of which 85% are exported. Related brand names include FIE and EXCAM, the original Israel Military Industries Jericho 941 semi-automatic pistols were built using parts supplied by the Italian arms house Tanfoglio. Since 2009 Tanfoglio is the European importer for the Caracal pistol product line, List of firearms List of pistols Tanfoglio Combat and Standard Tanfoglio Force TZ75 Tanfoglio Forum Official website Official website
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.44 Magnum
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The.44 Remington Magnum, or simply.44 Magnum, and frequently.44 Mag, is a large-bore cartridge originally designed for revolvers. After its introduction, it was adopted for carbines and rifles. Despite the.44 designation, guns chambered for the.44 Magnum round, and its parent, the.44 Magnum is based on a lengthened.44 Special case, loaded to higher pressures for greater velocity. The.44 Magnum cartridge was the end result of years of tuned handloading of the.44 Special, the.44 Special, and other large-bore handgun cartridges, were being loaded with heavy bullets, pushed at higher than normal velocities for better hunting performance. One of these handloaders was Elmer Keith, a writer and outdoorsman of the 20th century, Elmer Keith settled on the.44 Special cartridge as the basis for his experimentation, rather than the larger.45 Colt. At the time, the selection of.44 caliber projectiles for handloaders was more varied, also, the.44 Special case was smaller in diameter than the.45 Colt case. In revolvers of the cylinder size, this meant the.44 caliber revolvers had thicker. This allowed higher pressures to be used with less risk of a burst cylinder, Keith encouraged Smith & Wesson and Remington to produce a commercial version of this new high-pressure loading, and revolvers chambered for it. Smith & Wessons first.44 Magnum revolver, the Model 29, was built on December 15,1955, julian Hatcher, and Elmer Keith received two of the first production models. Hatchers review of the new Smith & Wesson revolver and the.44 Magnum cartridge appeared in the March,1956 issue of the magazine, Smith & Wesson produced 3,100 of these revolvers in 1956. By the summer of 1956, Sturm, Ruger became aware of this project, Ruger began shipping their new revolver in late November,1956. The film Dirty Harry, prominently featuring the S&W M29, contributed to that models popularity, Ruger introduced its first long gun, a semi-automatic carbine called the Ruger Model 44 chambered for.44 Magnum, in 1959. Marlin followed soon after with a lever action Model 1894 in.44 Magnum, the. 38-40 Winchester and. 32-20 Winchester were also available in both carbines and revolvers, allowing the shooter to use one type of ammunition for both firearms. In 2006, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the.44 Magnum, Ruger introduced a special 50th anniversary Blackhawk revolver, the.44 Magnum delivers a large, heavy bullet with high velocity for a handgun. In its full-powered form, it produces so much recoil and muzzle blast that it is considered to be unsuitable for use as a police weapon. Rapid fire is difficult and strenuous on the hands, especially for shooters of smaller build or with small hands. Although marketed as a.44 caliber, the.44 Magnum, the.44 designation is a carryover from the early measurements of heeled bullets, used in the later 19th century. In those times, bullets were measured on the outside of the cartridge, not the inside of the cartridge
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Georgia: Used by army and police.[9]
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Hungary: Used by police.
India: Used by Special Forces. [11]
Israel: Used by various police and security forces.[12]
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South Korea: Used by Army and Marine Corps Military Police Special Duty Team[14]
Ukraine: since September 2009 produced in Ukraine under the name “Fort-21.03”.[15] Used by Ukrainian police and special forces[16]
Kenya: Used by The Kenya Police.
