Lewis gun
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The Lewis gun is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely
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A Lewis gun at the Elgin Military Museum Canada. The rear end of its light-gray finned aluminium heat sink, which fits within the gun's brass-coloured cylindrical cooling shroud, can be seen.
A 1917 recruiting poster for the United States Marines featuring a Lewis gun
Men of the 28th Battalion of the 2nd Australian Division practising Lewis gun drill at Renescure
Magazine (firearms)
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A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device for a repeating firearm, either integral with the gun or detachable. The magazine functions by holding several cartridges within itself and seque
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…the war. It had a distinctive barrel cooling shroud (containing a finned breech-to-muzzle aluminium heat sink to cool the gun barrel), and top-mounted pan magazine. The Lewis served until the end of the Korean War, and was widely used as an aircraft machine gun during both World Wars, almost always with the cooling…
A staggered-column 9×19mm Browning Hi-Power pistol box magazine. The top image shows the magazine loaded and ready for use, while the lower image shows it unloaded and disassembled.
Loading sleeve open, three Henry Flat cartridges, compare with .44 WCF round
1905 Military Rifles magazines. 1 & 2: Mosin–Nagant M1891 3 & 4: Lebel M1886 5 & 6: Gewehr M1888 7 & 8: Mannlicher M1888 9 & 10: Lee–Metford M1888 11 & 12: Dutch-Mannlicher M1895 13 & 14: Mauser M1893 15: Krag–Jørgensen M1886 16: Schmidt–Rubin M1889
Comparison of M1 Garand en bloc clip (left), and SKS stripper clip (right)