rifle

A gun 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 rifling causes the bullet that is fired to spin, giving it more stability and penetrating power.

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, kel-tec_rfb, lee-enfield, m1_garand, mauser_98, mosin-nagant, ruger_mini-14, and sniper_rifle (learn more).