sporting rifles and shotguns are the kind of guns that you can own in the uk.
what kind of guns can you own in the uk?
sporting rifles and shotguns
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after the american entry into world war i, the army recognized the need for large-caliber guns for use on the western front. the coast artillery operated all us army heavy artillery in that war, due to their experience and training with these weapons. a total of 92 6-inch coast defense guns were removed from fixed emplacements or drawn from spares and mounted on m1917 wheeled carriages as field guns; most of these (72, plus possibly a few ex-navy weapons) equipped three coast artillery regiments in france, the 61st, 62nd, and 68th. they were nicknamed "6-inch terrors". however, due to the armistice, none of these regiments completed training in time to see action. by this time, pedestal mounts for 6-inch guns (all of them m1900 weapons) were known to be superior to disappearing mounts, being able to more rapidly track targets with a faster rate of fire. thus, most disappearing guns (except the m1897, shorter than the others) were dismounted for use as field guns, while most of the few pedestal guns dismounted were returned to the forts soon after the war. the removed 6-inch disappearing guns (primarily m1903 and m1905) were stored and many were returned to service in world war ii. the army weapons removed included up to 18 m1900 guns and 74 m1903 and m1905 guns based on carriages ordered (m1917a carriages for the m1900 weapons, m1917 carriages for the m1903/m1905 weapons). one source states that four m1900 guns and 68 m1903/m1905 guns arrived in france. an additional 46 6-inch guns of other types were provided by the navy and 30 ex-navy guns from arms dealer francis bannerman; a few of these were possibly delivered to france before the armistice. these included navy guns marks 2 through 6, of 30, 40, 45, and 50 calibers length. all of the bannerman guns were 30 calibers long; the number of guns of other lengths is unclear. sources state that all navy guns were cut down to 30 calibers barrel length in an attempt to standardize ballistics, as that was the length of the shortest navy guns. thirty-seven m1917b carriages were ordered for the navy guns, with a view to having a spare tube for each carriage; it is unclear how many were produced, or if any were delivered to france. some of the army weapons (primarily the m1900 guns due to their fast-operating pedestal mounts) were returned to coast defenses after the war, but most (a count of disarmed batteries shows approximately 81) were stored until world war ii. one survives on a field carriage in the collection of the u.s. army ordnance training and heritage center, fort lee, virginia. in june 1919, after the treaty of versailles was signed, the field carriages for the 6-inch guns were declared obsolete and almost entirely scrapped.
6-inch gun m1897