rifle

A long firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. The rifling causes the speeding bullet to spin, giving it more stability and penetrating power.

Type of rifles

• anti-materiel rifle
• assault rifle
• battle rifle
• bolt action
• bullpup
• designated marksman rifle
• flintlock
• lever action
• sniper rifle

See also

• Kalashnikov rifle
• List of weapons
• recoilless rifle

The following tags are aliased to this tag: rifles (learn more).

This tag implicates gun (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: ar-15, arisaka, assault_rifle, battle_rifle, carcano, gewehr_43, k31, kel-tec_rfb, lebel_model_1886, lee-enfield, m1903_springfield, m1917_enfield, m1_garand, mas-36, mauser_98, mosin-nagant, p14_enfield, ruger_mini-14, and sniper_rifle (learn more).