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development of repeating firearms
- In small arm: Magazine repeaters
…by a device called a clip, a light metal openwork box that held five cartridges and fed them up into the chamber through the action of a spring as each spent case was ejected. Other magazine rifles, such as the Mauser, used a different loading device, called a charger. This…
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invention by Mannlicher
- In Ferdinand, knight von Mannlicher
…firearms designer who invented the cartridge clip, which allows loading a box magazine in one motion.
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