Guns+-+Rifle

=Introduction= There are lots of kinds of guns, but we are going to look at 1 specific gun, and its name is a rifle.

=research strings= rifle + definition rifle + =Who= There were a lot of people who invented rifle. The Rifle has been for a very long time, August Kotter invented the rifle in 1520 However, the first rifle as we know and think about the gun was invented by B. Tyler Henry in 1860. He called it the Henry Rifle. =What = A **rifle** is a [|firearm] designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("[|rifling]") cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a [|bullet]), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. H aving a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance. It's artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves.

Definition: A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, which fires a single projectile (__[|bullet] __) through a barrel which contains spiral grooves in its __[|bore] __. (The bore is the hole through the middle of the barrel.) Along with shotguns, these are often called "long guns."  A gun, esp. one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrelintended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance. =Where = It was German gunsmith in Nuremberg August Kotter in 1520. The Robert //rifle// was //invented// by Robert, a gunsmith of Paris in. Tyler henry invented in America. =When= In the 1520 the first rifle was made, however the first rifle as we know and think about the gun was invented by B. Tyler Henry in 1860. He called it the Henry Rifle. =Why = The rifle was invented because they needed it for combat and for food. Its also because the rifle can shoot very far in combat, it shoots up to 800 meters.toc

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