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• Modern American rifles. (B. Whidden, 1892), by Arthur Corbin Gould (page images at HathiTrust)

• U.S. rifles, cal. .30, M1903, M1903A1, M1903A3 and M1903A4 (War Dept., 1944), by United States. War Office and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• Organizational and direct support maintenance repair parts and special tools list for 90-mm recoilless rifle, M67 W/E (1015-00-657-7534). (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1988), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organizational maintenance repair parts and special tools list for rifle, recoilless, 106-mm, M40A2 (1015-00-133-8484) and M40A4 (1015-00-133-8485). (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1991), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Direct support maintenance manual for 90-mm recoilless rifle, M67 w/e (1015-00-657-7534). (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1991), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operator and organizational maintenance manual for 90-mm recoilless rifle, M67 w/e (1015-00-657-7534). (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• 1994 assault weapons ban, 1994-96 (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1999), by Jeffrey A. Roth, Christopher S. Koper, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldier and marine equipment for dismounted operations : hearing before the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, hearing held March 17, 2011. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2011), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semiautomatic military-style firearms : statistics and issues (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991), by Keith Bea and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Semiautomatic military-style firearms : statistics and issues (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991), by Keith Bea and Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hand receipt manual covering basic issue items (BII) and additional authorization list (AAL) for rifle, recoilless, 90-mm, M67, national stock no. 1015-00-657-7534. (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• M40A1 sniper rifle 7.62 mm. (U.S. Marine Corps, 1989), by United States Marine Corps (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Military and Sporting Rifle Shooting: A Complete and Practical Treatise Covering the Use of Modern Military, Target and Sporting Rifles (Marines, NC: Small-Arms Technical Pub. Co., c1932), by Edward C. Crossman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of the Rifle (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901), by Thomas Francis Fremantle
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• Modern Breech-Loaders: Sporting and Military (London and New York: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1871), by W. W. Greener
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• The Northwest gun. (Nebraska State Historical Society, 1955), by Charles E. Hanson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and riflemen at the battle of Kings mountain. (United States Dept. of the interior, National park service, 1941), by Rogers W. Young, Alfred F. Hopkins, Carl Parcher Russell, and Patrick Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of rifles (Stackpole Co., 1963), by W. H. B. Smith and Joseph Edward Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern rifle ... (The Authors, 1917), by Jesse Randolph Bevis and John Alexander Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete book of rifles and shotguns, with a seven-lesson rifle shooting course. (Outdoor Life, 1961), by Jack O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Custom built rifles. (Stackpole and Heck, 1949), by Richard F. Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of rifles. (Military Service Division, Stackpole Co., 1960), by W. H. B. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifle-craft (Sportsman's digest publishing co., 1923), by Charles Singer Landis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Text book of small arms. 1909. (Printed for H. M. Stationery off., by Harrison and sons, 1909), by Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• A forgotten heritage (Standard printing & publishing company, 1941), by Harry P. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and ammunition and rifle shooting (Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1915), by Harcourt Ommundsen and Ernest H. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crew-served weapons and gunnery ([Washington], 1954), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle in war (The U.S. Cavalry association, 1909), by Henry Edgar Eames (page images at HathiTrust)
• English guns and rifles, being an account of the development, design and usage of English sporting rifles and shotguns, from their introduction during the fifteenth century until the advent of the metallic cartridges in the nineteenth century, together with notes on muskets, service rifles, blunderbusses and other arms, including also various historical notes and accounts regarding individual makers and users of these arms. (Small-arms technical publishing company, 1947), by J. N. George and S.B. Haw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic rifle marksmanship trainer's guide. (Dept. of the Army], 1985), by United States. Dept. of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• NRA hunter safety handbook. (NRA, 1959), by National Rifle Association of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to shoot (including Care and preservation of the rifle) (Geo. Banta publishing co., 1917), by James A. Moss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The shot-gun and sporting rifle: and the dogs, ponies, ferrets, &c., used with them in the various kinds of shooting and trapping. (Roultedge [!] Warne, and Routledge, 1859), by J. H. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints to riflemen (D. Appleton and Company, 1864), by H. W. S. Cleveland and E. Stabler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Big game rifles and cartridges (Small-arms technical publishing company, 1936), by Elmer Keith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and rifle practice: an elementary treatise upon the theory of rifle firing, explaining the causes of inaccuracy of fire, and the manner of correcting it. (D. Van Nostrand, 1859), by Cadmus M. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Board for Examination of Breech-Loading Military Small Arms : State of New York. (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers, 1867), by New York (State). Board for Examination of Breech-Loading Military Small Arms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army rifles; a paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, February 5, 1908 ([Cincinnati, 1908), by Frederick Wallis Hinkle and Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Ohio Commandery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American rifle : a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle (Century Co., 1920), by Townsend Whelen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of the Springfield : a textbook covering all the various military and sporting rifles chambered for the caliber .30 model 1906 cartridge ; their metallic and telescopic sights and the ammunitions suited to them (Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co., 1932), by Edward C. Crossman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the U.S. magazine rifle and carbine; calibre .30. (Gov't. Print. Off., 1898), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the U. S. magazine rifle model of 1898 and magazine carbine model of 1899, caliber .30. (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1917), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the United States rifle, caliber .30, model of 1903 ... March 3, 1904. Rev. Apr. 18, 1906, Feb. 14, 1908, Apr. 2, 1909, Oct. 17, 1911, March 20, 1914, Jan. 22, 1917. (Govt. print. off., 1917), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the United States rifle, caliber .30, model of 1917, October 8, 1917. (G.P.O., 1917), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small game & varmint rifles. (A. S. Barnes, 1947), by Henry M. Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and riflemen at the battle of Kings mountain. (United States Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1941), by Rogers W. Young, Alfred F. Hopkins, and Carl Parcher Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• United States rifles and machine guns; a detailed account of the methods used in manufacturing the Springfield, 1903 model service rifle; also descriptions of the modified Enfield rifle and three types of machine guns. (McGraw-Hill, 1917), by Fred H. Colvin and Ethan Viall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American rifle : a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle (Century Co., 1918), by Townsend Whelen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the U. S. magazine rifle, model 1898, and magazine carbine, model 1899, caliber .30. ([s.n.], 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crack shot; or, Young rifleman's complete guide: being a treatise on the use of the rifle, with rudimentary and finishing lessons; including a full description of the latest improved breech-loading weapons, rules and regulations for target practice; directions for hunting game found in the United States and British province, etc., etc. (W.A. Townsend & Adams;, 1868), by Edward C. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kriegshandfeuerwaffen : eine genaue Darstellung ihrer Einrichtung in den europäischen Armeen, ihrer Anfertigung, ihres Gebrauchs und ihrer allmäligen Entwicklung (A. Bath, 1857), by Caesar Rüstow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and rifle practice : an elementary treatise upon the theory of rifle firing, explaining the causes of inaccuracy of fire, and the manner of correcting it ... (D. Van Nostrand, 1861), by Cadmus M. Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the rifle (Vinton & Co., 1896), by Lord Cottesloe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rifle-musket : a practical treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett rifle recently adopted in the British service (Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Henry Jervis-White-Jervis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The neophyte, an elementary treatise of rifle movements and manual of the percussion rifle. (C. R. Lincoln, 1854), by George B. Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musketry. (George U. Harvey publishing company, inc., 1917), by E. John Solano and S. A. Dion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experts on guns and shooting. (Sampson Low, Marston & co., 1900), by G T Teasdale-Buckell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rifles and rifle shooting (Outing publishing company, 1912), by Charles Askins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sporting rifles and rifle shooting (D. Appleton, 1920), by John Caswell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theory of the rifle and rifle shooting. An elementary treatise on the scientific principles of the small-arm and its functions. (C. Griffin & company, limited, 1919), by John William Hicks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Military rifle shooting. (United States Cartridge Co., 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and accessories for organizations of war veterans, under the Act of February 10, 1920 (Govt. print. off., 1920), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and accessories for organizations of war veterans, under the Act of February 10, 1920 (Govt. print. off., 1922), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of the automatic rifle (chauchat); drill, combat, mechanism. (War Plans Division, 1918), by United States Adjutant General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of rifles for game and target (Sportsman's digest, 1922), by Charles Singer Landis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ross rifle (Albany, N.Y., 1918), by Howard P. Paddock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle: and how to use it. Comprising a description of that valuable weapon in all its varieties. (Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1861), by Hans Busk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cartilla de carabineros ... (A. Boix, 1853), by José María Bustamante (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our military rifle and how to use it (Arms And The Man Pub. Co., 1909), by George T. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Score book for calibre .30 Krag military rifle shooting. (Lowell, Mass., 1908), by United States Cartridge Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern guns and mortars adopted in the United States land service, their carriages, projectiles, fuzes, and sights (Govt. print. off., 1895), by United States Adjutant General's Office, Tasker Howard Bliss, James C. Ayres, and Charles Clifford Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern sportsman's gun and rifle : including game and wildfowl guns, sporting and match rifles, and revolvers (Horace Cox, 1882), by J. H. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and instructions for the management of the gallery-practice rifle, caliber .22--model of 1903 : October 18, 1907, revised December 14, 1908, revised October 17, 1913. (G.P.O., 1913), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hay rifle periscope (s.n., 1915), by John G. Hay and Northern Electric Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die geschichtliche Entwickelung der Handfeuerwaffen (C. Höckner, 1886), by Moritz Thierbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soldier's handbook of the rifle and score book for special course C : arranged for the United States rifle, model of 1917 (G.P.O., 1918), by United States. War Department. General Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the United States rifle, caliber .30, model of 1903. (Govt. Printing Off. ;, 1915), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and shotguns; the art of rifle and shotgun shooting for big game and feathered game (George H. Doran, 1917), by Warren Hastings Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our rifles. (The Cornhill Company, 1920), by Charles Winthrop Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rifle in war (The U.S. Cavalry association, 1909), by Henry Edgar Eames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army Rifle Procurement and Distribution Program : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Preparedness Investigation, Ninetieth Congress, first session, on Apr. 5, 1967. (U.S. G.P.O., 1967), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the special subcommittee on the M-16 rifle program of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, , Ninetieth Congress, first session, October 19, 1967. (U.S. Govt. print. Off, 1967), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of the preparedness program ; report under the authority of S. Res. 71, 90th Cong., 1st Sess., on the Army's rifle procurement and distribution program. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1967), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hanger on sporting (Printed for J.J. Stockdale, 1816), by George Hanger and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mauser magazine rifle, calibre 7, 65-6, 5 mm. (.301 in- .256 in.) (Berlin, 1891), by Ludw. Loewe & Compagnie Aktiengesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules for the management and cleaning of the rifle musket, model 1855. For the use of soldiers. (H.C. Baird, 1858), by Erskine S. Allin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A synopsis of "The rifle in war." (Press of Army Service Schools, 1914), by Henry E. Eames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description and rules for the management of the Springfield rifle, carbine, and army revolvers, caliber 45. ([publisher not identified], 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American rifle for hunting and target shooting. (The Macmillan company, 1944), by Clarence Edwin Hagie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rifles : a modern encyclopedia. (Stackpole Co., 1958), by Henry M. Stebbins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Opisanīe upotreblenīi︠a︡ lekal i priborov 3-kh lin. pi︠e︡khotnoĭ dragunskoĭ i kazachʹeĭ vintovok obrazt︠s︡a 1891 goda. (Voennai︠a︡ tip. Imp. Ekateriny Velikoĭ, 1915), by Russia. Armii︠a︡. Glanvnoe artilleriĭskoe upravlenie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Investigation of the preparedness program (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hunting rifle; design, selection, ballistics, marksmanship (Stackpole sons, 1940), by Townsend Whelen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The muzzle-loading cap lock rifle. (Military Service Pub. Co., 1947), by Ned Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• U.S. rifle, caliber .30, M1. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Whitney firearms. (Standard Publications, 1946), by Claud E. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• .22 caliber rifle shooting; a practical volume covering target and small game shooting with .22 caliber rifles (Small-Arms Technical Pub. Co., 1932), by Charles Singer Landis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook on small bore rifle shooting : equipment, marksmanship, target shooting, practical shooting, rifle ranges, rifle clubs (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, 1950), by Townsend Whelen and Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rifle, its development for big game hunting. (Military Service Pub. Co., 1947), by Stephen Riggs Truesdell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, first session, May 15, 16, 31, June 21, July 25, 26, 27, August 8, 9, and 22, 1967. (Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1967., 1967), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on the M-16 Rifle Program and United States. Congress. 1967). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rifles and rifle shooting (Macmillan Company, 1931), by Charles Askins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defense : M-16 rifle production program : memorandum of understanding between the United States of America and the Republic of Korea, signed at Seoul and Washington March 31 and April 22, 1971, and amending agreements signed at Seoul July 30, 1976, and signed at Seoul October 14, 1977. (Dept. of State : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gas, air, and spring guns of the world. (Military Service Pub. Co., 1957), by W. H. B. Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual of arms, adapted to the Springfield rifle, caliber .45 and to the magazine rifle, caliber .30. (Army and navy journal, 1897), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les carabines de guerre, les fusils transformés et leurs balles ... (C. Tanera, 1860), by Louis Jean Ghislain Charrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Woolwich" system of rifled ordnance; a contribution to the history of its invention (C.F.Hodgson & son, 1878), by William Frederich Padwich, William Frederick Paduick, and C.F. Hodgson & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breech loaders. (London, 1872), by W. & C. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to strengthen our army and crush the rebellion. (W.C. Dodge, 1865), by W. C. Dodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Infantry fire tactics (Printed and pub. by Gale and Polden, Brompton Works, 1885), by C. B. Mayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sporting firearms. (Macmillan co., 1938), by Horace Kephart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on sporting rifles for use in India and elsewhere (E. Arnold & Co., 1920), by Gerald Burrard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the Springfield : a textbook covering the military, sporting and target rifles chambered for the caliber .30 model 1906 cartridge ; their metallic and telescopic sights and the ammunition suited to them (Small-Arms Technical Pub. Co., 1951), by Edward C. Crossman and Roy F. Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rifles and Riflemen at the Battle of Kings Mountain, by United States. National Park Service, contrib. by Alfred F. Hopkins, Carl Parcher Russell, and Rogers W. Young (Gutenberg ebook)
• Musketry (.303 and .22 cartridges): Elementary training, visual training, judging distance, fire discipline, range practices, field practices, ed. by E. John Solano (Gutenberg ebook)

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