In addition to the Lee-Enfield infantry rifle, shorter Lee-Enfield carbines were created and adopted for use by British cavalry units. These carbines had specialized features that made for easier ...

The Lee-Enfield No. 4 Rifle served the British Army during World War II and beyond.

Here’s What You Need to Know: From Crimea to India, this rifle proved effective against infantry, cavalry and even artillery positions alike. The Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle was developed in time ...

July 2, 2008: Indian police in Himachal Pradesh recently agreed to sell several hundred Lee-Enfield rifles, and thousands of rounds of World War II vintage ammunition, to police in Jharkhand. Himachal ...

The Lee-Enfield rifle is one of the most battle-hardened weapons in history, yet it rarely gets the recognition it deserves. Overshadowed by the Mauser 98, many collectors and historians focus on ...

After decades of service, the military's last Lee-Enfield rifles are finally getting close to retirement. Colt Canada of Kitchener, Ont., has been picked to design modern rifles to replace the ...

Why the 114-year-old Lee-Enfield rifle is only now being retired by the Canadian Armed Forces Once shouldered by nearly 50 armies, Canada becomes the last military in the world to remove it from ...

The foe now has four legs. But a century on, the rugged reliability and brute firepower that made the Lee-Enfield rifle the standard-issue weapon for entrenched Canadian troops during the latter ...

This gave it a longer sight radius and thus greater practical accuracy than the Gewehr 98 or Lee-Enfield, which both had leaf or notch sights halfway down the rifle.

The unit is armed with the .303 Lee Enfield rifle bought back in 1947. The rifles have gotten so old, the Canadian force can no longer buy parts to fix the rifles that are quickly falling apart.

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 ...

The Lee Enfield rifle, which was issued to British and Commonwealth armed forces in the early twentieth century, was made here originally.