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.

This tag also applies to a carbine, which is basically the shorter variant of a rifle.

Rifle types

• anti-materiel rifle
• assault rifle
• battle rifle
• bolt action
• bullpup
• firelock
• lever action
• sniper rifle

See also

• List of Weapons

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_carbine, m1_garand, mas-36, mauser_98, mk_14_ebr, mosin-nagant, p14_enfield, ruger_mini-14, sig_mcx, sig_sg550, sks, sniper_rifle, and svt-40 (learn more).