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The American firm Group Industries made limited numbers of a copy of the Uzi "B" model semiauto carbine for sale in the US along with copies of the Uzi submachine gun for the U.S. collectors' market. After registering several hundred submachine guns transferable to the general public through a special government-regulated process, production ...
Polymer80, Inc. is an American manufacturer of parts kits containing firearm parts including unfinished receivers (also known as "80 percent" receivers) used for making privately made firearms. The company was founded in 2013 by Loran Kelley Jr. and David Borges and is headquartered in Dayton, Nevada. Polymer80 has received press coverage ...
The Roberti–Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989 (AWCA) is a California law that bans the ownership and transfer of over 50 specific brands and models of firearms, which were classified as assault weapons. Most were rifles, but some were pistols and shotguns. The law was amended in 1999 to classify assault weapons by features of the firearm.
Daewoo Precision Industries K2: Assault rifle South Korea: 1,000,000 [145] "Nearly a million" in 2017, still in production and being exported FN Browning M1900: Semi-automatic pistol Belgium: 724,550 [146] 1,000,000 Martini-Henry: Single-shot rifle United Kingdom: 500,000 [147] 1,000,000 Total: 390 million: 645 million
Receiver blanks are often used in the manufacture of privately made firearms. A privately made firearm, also called a ghost gun or homemade firearm, is a firearm made by a private individual, in contrast to one produced by a corporate or government entity. [ 1] The term "ghost gun" is used mostly in the United States by gun control advocates ...
The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ...
Receiver (firearms) In firearms terminology and at law, the firearm frame or receiver is the part of a firearm which integrates other components by providing housing for internal action components such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing pin and extractor, and has threaded interfaces for externally attaching ("receiving") components such ...
Semi-automatic pistol. 9×19mm Parabellum. French-manufactured variant of the Beretta 92. Entered service with the national gendarmerie in 1989, with the Air Force in 1992, and with the Army and Navy in 1999. 97,502 units in service in 2002 [ 3] Also being replaced by the Glock 17 Gen 5 FR since 2020.