All Small Arms And Sidearms

Individual and crew-portable firearms and sidearms: pistols, revolvers, rifles, battle rifles, submachine guns, shotguns and the cartridges built for them, the standard small arms class of ordnance reference works. Belongs here: any weapon system whose own attested weapon class names a pistol, revolver, rifle or submachine gun family. Does not belong here: a machine gun or other automatic support weapon, which belongs to Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons, and a grenade launcher, which belongs to Grenades And Explosives. Reassigned from the Weapons Systems Contemporary catch-all, ruling 926.