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The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known (also known as the Kalashnikov) is a selective-fire (semi-automatic and automatic), gas-operated 7.62×39 mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov.

It is officially known in the Soviet documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikova.

A handgun is a firearm designed to be , in either one or both hands.

This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from long guns such as rifles and shotguns (which usually can be braced against the shoulder).

A rifle is a firearm 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 raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.

When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile and prevents tumbling, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.

This allows the use of aerodynamically-efficient bullets (as opposed to the spherical balls used in muskets) and thus improves range and accuracy.

The word "rifle" originally referred to the grooving, and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." The word "rifle" is now used for any long hand-held aimed device activated by a trigger, such as Air rifles and the Personnel halting and stimulation response rifle.

Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and shooting sports.

A firearm is a portable gun - a barreled weapon that launches one or more projectiles, often driven by the action of an explosive force.

The first primitive firearms originated in 13th-century China when the one-person-portable fire lance was combined with projectiles.

The technology gradually spread through the rest of East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and then into Europe.

Older firearms typically used black powder as a propellant, but modern firearms use smokeless powder or other propellants.

Most modern firearms (with the notable exception of smoothbore shotguns) have rifled barrels to impart spin to the projectile for improved flight stability.

Ammunition (noun, commonly shortened to ammo) is the general term used for the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.

The term ammunition can be traced back to the mid 17th century.

Broadly speaking, ammunition refers to both expendable weapons (e.g. bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines, naval mines and anti-personnel mines) and the component parts of other weapons that create the effect on a target (e.g. bullets and warheads).

Nearly all weapons will require some form of ammunition to operate.

The word comes from the French la munition, which refers to the material used for war.

The terms ammunition and munitions are often used interchangeably, although the term munition now usually refers to both the actual weapons system alongside the ammunition required to operate it.