Stock (firearms)
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A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the bar
An early hand cannon, or gonne, supported by a simple stock
A thumbscrew-adjustable cheek rise
M16A1 cutaway rifle (top) and M16A2 (below) with a "straight-line" stock configuration
Gun stock construction on a lathe from the 1850s (photo c. 2015)
Machine pistol
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A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun-style submachine guns.
Soviet Stechkin APS and suppressed APB select-fire machine pistols, introduced into Soviet service in 1951
Steyr "Repetierpistole M1912/P16", one of the world's first machine pistols
Stechkin APS machine pistol
Czechoslovak Škorpion vz. 61