Gewehr
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Prior to the 1840s, rifled guns were not widespread, and firearms are smoothbore muzzleloaders termed {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, a term that are still used in German hunting jargons today. Etymologically, the word "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}" is related to "fighting" or "guarding", and so became the standard term for military-type weapons.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The term "Gewehr" can be encountered in the context of 19th and 20th century military history for nonspecific rifles from German-speaking countries, e.g. in arms trade, in particular for types produced before German unification in 1871.
Specific types, sorted chronologically from 1841 to 1997 and with designer given, are:
- Gewehr 41 (Dreyse, 1841)
- Gewehr 71 (Mauser, 1871)
- Gewehr 88 (state committee, 1888)
- Gewehr 98 (Mauser, 1898)
- T-Gewehr (Mauser, 1918)
- Gewehr 41 (Walther, 1941)
- Gewehr 43 (Walther, 1943)
- Sturmgewehr 44 (CITEFA/Schmeisser, 1944)
- Gewehr 36 (Heckler & Koch, 1997)