machine gun

Also known as machinegun

fully automatic mounted or portable firearm

AI overview

A machine gun is a firearm that can fire bullets continuously and automatically as long as the trigger is held down, and it can be either mounted in a fixed position or carried by a person. Machine guns matter because their rapid-fire capability makes them significant weapons in military and law enforcement contexts, and they are heavily regulated or restricted in most civilian settings due to their destructive potential.

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Commons category: Machine guns
topic's main category: Category:Machine guns
different from: submachine gun
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Encyclopedic overview

Top: IWI Negev Bottom: FN MAG (general purpose machine gun) Czechoslovak 7.62 mm Universal Machine gun Model 1959 A .50 caliber M2 machine gun: John Browning's design has been one of the longest-serving and most successful machine gun designs

A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of 20 mm (0.79 in) caliber or more are usually classified as autocannons rather than machine guns.

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