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The HK32 stuck with the roller-delayed blowback design of the G3 and paired it with a proprietary box magazine. The company also offered 7.62x39 mm versions of its HK21 light machine gun ...
"And one of the things that Mauser wanted to develop was just a simple blowback-actuated design. Mauser tasked an engineer named Josef Nickl to develop what would eventually become a family of ...
Browning, but the .32 Auto was actually his first pistol cartridge. Most .32 Auto handguns are blowback design, meaning the weight of the slide keeps the chamber after firing and before the firing ...
With less rearward force to compensate for, CMMG is able to use a lighter carrier and buffer than a standard blowback design would allow, thus reducing the overall reciprocating mass, the release ...
The Makarov is a straight blowback design with no locking going on between the slide and the frame. The Tokarev uses locking, but it only has a single stack magazine and lacks any real safety ...
Shpagin’s gun was a simple adaptation of a straight blowback design to the new cartridge. In order to successfully slow the movement of the bolt to allow for firing, the bolt was extremely heavy.