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Calico Light Weapons Inc. is a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Products

CLWS produces a line of pistols, and carbines. Calico firearms feature a top-mounted, helical-feed, high-capacity (50 or 100 round) magazine that ejects spent shells from a slot in the bottom, making a brass catcher more practical. Interestingly, The Calico M950/900/951 and 9mm submachine guns use the Roller-Delayed Blowback principle which is famously used in the Heckler & Koch series of firearms.

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Although reviews of the product line were very favorable, Calico has yet to secure big military and law enforcement contracts. Sales were severely curtailed by the introduction of the Federal assault weapons ban in the 1990s which limited magazine capacity of newly made firearms to ten rounds. Now that that particular legislation has expired Calico is producing firearms again. Calico weapons are sometimes seen in science fiction films due to their futuristic appearance. The company tagline in the 1990s was A Revolution in Firepower!.

Products

.22 LR Pistols
- M-100P
- M-110P
9mm Pistols
- M950 Liberty III
Carbines
- M-900
- M-951
- M960
- Liberty I and II
Sub-machineguns
- M-750
- M-900A
- M-950A
.22 LR Carbines
- M-100
- M-100S

References

Modern Small Arms - Ian Hogg, ISBN 1-85841-075-4

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 ==Products==
-CLWS produces a line of [[pistols]], and [[carbines]]. Calico firearms feature a top-mounted, [[helical]]-feed, high-capacity (50 or 100 round) [[magazine]] that ejects spent shells from a slot in the bottom, making a [[brass catcher]] more practical.
+CLWS produces a line of [[pistols]], and [[carbines]]. Calico firearms feature a top-mounted, [[helical]]-feed, high-capacity (50 or 100 round) [[magazine]] that ejects spent shells from a slot in the bottom, making a [[brass catcher]] more practical. Interestingly, The Calico M950/900/951 and 9mm submachine guns use the Roller-Delayed Blowback principle which is famously used in the Heckler & Koch series of firearms.
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