What is the strongest gun in the world?

The . 50-caliber rifle created by Ronnie Barrett and sold by his company, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc., is the most powerful firearm civilians can buy. It weighs about 30 pounds and can hit targets up to 2,000 yards away with armor-piercing bullets.
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Which is the No 1 gun in the world?

The result today is that some 75 million AK-47s have been produced, with most still in circulation, making it the most ubiquitous weapon in the history of firearms — dwarfing the M16's eight million.
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Is AK-47 the most powerful gun?

The AK-47 is the deadliest weapon ever built, on the whole. Its kill count even tops nuclear weapons in sheer numbers. But the first AK-47s were very heavy and weren't really built for aiming.
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Why is AK-47 so powerful?

While the AK-47's reasonable weight, comparative lack of recoil, intermediate rounds and compact size — a big plus for close-quarters urban warfare and other situations in which a long barrel gets in an infantryman's way — were important qualities, what makes the weapon truly special is its simplicity and durability.
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Which is better AK-47 or AK 56?

Both the guns have similar dimensions but the AK-56 assault rifle is a bit lighter, weighing 3.8 kg compared to the 4.3 kg weight of the AK-47 rifle. They both use 7.62 mm cartridges and have a 30 round feed system meaning that one magazine can hold up to 30 bullets.
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Which is better AK-47 or ak74?

The 5.45x39mm cartridge of the AK-74 makes it a more accurate and reliable rifle compared to the AK-47, which uses a 7.62x39mm cartridge.
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What is the fastest gun?

M134 MINIGUN

This weapon weighs as little as 41 pounds but packs quite the punch with a rate of fire up to 6,000 rounds per minute.
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Can you dodge a bullet?

Bullet dodging, Scientific American reports, is one such make-believe ability invented by Hollywood. Regardless of your speed and finesse, no human can dodge a bullet at close range. The bullet is simply traveling too fast. Even the slowest handguns shoot a bullet at 760 miles per hour, SciAm explains.
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What does AK stand for?

The initials AK represent Avtomat Kalashnikova, Russian for “automatic Kalashnikov,” for its designer, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.
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Are AK-47 still made?

He also developed the cartridge-fed PK machine gun. Modified AK-47s are still in production in countries around the world.
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Which gun has the longest range?

C15 Long Range Sniper Weapon. Commercially known as the McMillan Tac-50, this is the rifle which has broken the world record for longest kill on three separate occasions over the last 15 years.
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What rifle does Chinese army use?

QBZ-95 (rifle)

This is the Chinese standard-issue version of the rifle, chambered for the 5.8×42mm DBP87 round.
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What is price of AK-47?

15,000 each': what price peace on the Indo-Burmese frontier?
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Who invented a gun?

The first firearms can be traced back to 10th century China. The Chinese were the first to invent gunpowder, and historians typically credit the first guns as being weapons the Chinese called fire lances. The fire lance was a metal or bamboo tube attached to the end of a spear.
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What does AR stand for gun?

The AR in "AR-15" rifle stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in. the 1950s. "AR" does NOT stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle." • AR-15-style rifles are NOT "assault weapons" or "assault rifles." An assault rifle is fully.
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What does HK stand for?

HK is a common abbreviation for Hong Kong, a former British crown colony and current special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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How many rounds AK-47 can fire?

The standard magazine capacity is 30 rounds. There are also 10, 20, and 40-round box magazines, as well as 75-round drum magazines. The AK-47's standard 30-round magazines have a pronounced curve that allows them to smoothly feed ammunition into the chamber.
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Can a Bible stop a bullet?

Rickey Wagoner, 49, was shot three times at point-blank range and stabbed in the arm, but survived because both bullets aimed at his chest were stopped by a New Testament devotional Bible in his front pocket, according to WHIO. The third bullet struck him in the leg.
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Is a jet faster than a bullet?

The bullet goes faster than the jet if you fire the bullets while inside the jet. If there is no friction (i.e: the bullet was fired in space), then you could accelerate the jet, catch up with the bullet and pick it out of the sky (although the rotation of the bullet would probably cut up your fingers).
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