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Machine Guns are powerful firearms. It was designed to fire really fast. It can fire from a rate of several hundreds bullets per minute. Machine Guns are usually placed as Submachine Guns, Machine Guns, or Autocannons. Submachine Guns are designed to be small and easy to carry for short combat or defense. Autocannons use a kind of bullet called Calibers. This bullet is a very large bullet. It's larger than 16mm. Guns that fire large-caliber are usually called either Autocannons or automatic grenade launchers which is called "Grenade Machine Guns." Machine Guns, such as rifles, are regularly share the characteristic of the high ratio of barrel length to caliber. The Machine Guns principle is known to be the presence of quick change barrel.

The Single Shot pistols are types of handgun that were mostly seen during the history of old fashion guns and light guns and the pistol was loaded with a lead ball and fired by explosive powder. As technology is getting better, the Single Shot pistol is also improving too.The Single Shot pistol is still made today because new mechanisms were created. These mechanisms were often used to hunt wild game. Multi-Barreled were the same during the same time as Single Shot pistols. Gun designers added more barrels to all guns including pistols because they want to increase the fire rates of guns. Derringers and Duck's Foot pistols are some examples of Muti-Barreled pistols. Semi-Automatic was the next improvement of the pistol. Semi-Automatic pistols has faster rates of fire and it only takes a few seconds to reload if the shooter's skills are good. In Blowback-type Semi-Automatics, the recoil force was used to push the slide back and eject the case so the magazine spring can push another round up, then as the slide returns, it chambers the round. The HK VP70 is an example of a modern Blowback action Semi-Automatic pistols. The Single Shot, Multi-Barreled and the Semi-Automatic were the most common pistols.

Shotguns are firearms that is mostly designed to be fired from the shoulders. Shotgun was also called as a Scattergun and Peppergun. This gun uses energy that came from a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called Shot. Shotguns comein a wide variety of sizes. Shotguns can rang from 5.5mm bore up to 5cm bore. It also has operating mechanisms such as single-barreled, double or combination gun, pump-action, and even fully automatic varients. The inside of the barrel is not rifled because shotguns are generally like a smoothbore firarm. The blunderbuss is the direct ancestor to the shotgun. The blunderbuss used in a similar variety of roles from self defence to riot control. In the first World War, the military value of shotguns was rediscovered. Forces from the Americans strike 12-gauge pump action shotguns in close-quarters trench fighting to great effect.Shotguns has been used in a variety of roles in civilian, law enfircement, and military applications. Shotguns are useful primarily for hunting birds because the power of the burning charge is divided among the pellets and the energy of any one ball of shot is fairly low. Large projectiles makes the shotguns useful in a close combat weapon and a defensive weapon. Shotguns are also used for target shooting sports such as skeet, trap, and sporting clays.

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