The British adopted the deeper, five-groove Enfield rifling in 1895, and the new rifle was dubbed the Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifle Mk I. Magazine capacity had been increased to 10 rounds.

Sir Joseph Whitworth, an engineer tasked with solving production problems related to the Pattern 1853 Enfield, elected to create an entirely new rifle musket. His Whitworth rifle, while never ...

The Canadian Department of National Defense announced earlier this month that it issued a contract to Colt Canada to design and produce 6,500 new rifles for the military's Arctic Rangers.

Just as many muskets were converted to rifles, the Pattern 53 was converted to a breech-loading firearm as the .577 Snider-Enfield, which utilized a new Boxer cartridge that replaced the paper and ...

Hahn added, the new guns are adjustable which will allow each gun to be adjusted for the Rangers' physical dimensions. That had become a problem with the Lee-Enfield rifles, he said.

Just as many muskets were converted to rifles, the Pattern 53 was converted to a breech-loading firearm as the .577 Snider-Enfield, which utilized a new Boxer cartridge that replaced the paper and ...

The Charlton Automatic Rifle was a fully automatic conversion of the Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle, designed in 1941 by a New Zealander, Philip Charlton. They were intended as substitutes for Bren ...