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handguard [′hand‚gärd] (ordnance) A wooden part on a rifle to protect the shooter's hand from the hot barrel. The part of a sword or dagger designed to protect the hand. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These include issuing short barrels, collapsible buttstocks and 100-and 200-round 'soft pack' magazines, and incorporating Mil-Std-1913 'Picatinny' rails on the feed cover and handguard to allow the use of combat optics and other accessories. The handguard, or tsuba, was ranked second in importance only to the blade itself, and photographs of these handguards reveal elaborate design motifs inspired by religion, nature, legends, and family crests, or mon. Soldiers can exchange the barrel, handguard, lower receiver, buttstock modules and sighting systems. |
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