Popularity of The Model 7600 Series Rifles and Carbines
The Remington Model 7600 series rifles and carbines are popular with many hunters and target shooters in places like North America and Australia on the grounds that it is a good "cross-over" firearm for people who are used to handling and shooting pump-action shotguns like the Remington Model 870 or semi-automatic hunting rifles like the Remington Model 7400. Unlike a bolt action, the 7600 can be used interchangeably for left or right-handed shooting.
An added benefit of the pump action nature is that the Remington Model 7600 series rifles can easily be stored in a relatively safe yet ready to use manner. A user can store this rifle with the hammer down, magazine loaded, and chamber empty. To make it ready to shoot in an emergency, the user would only need to pump the slide. Until the slide is pumped, the rifle is relatively safe, and much safer than a semi-automatic rifle with a round in the chamber.
In North America (in particular, the United States), the Remington Model 7600 is a favored choice of deer hunters, with Remington advertising that the Model 7600 is "one of the most popular deer rifles in the USA". Its use is especially prevalent in Pennsylvania, where state game laws forbid the use of semiautomatic rifles for hunting.
In Australia, the Remington Model 7600 series rifles and carbines are popular with feral pig and deer hunters, since the legal ownership of semi-automatic rifles and pump-action shotguns among licensed, recreational target shooters and hunters was prohibited in 1996 as well as the Model 7600 series rifles and carbines being handy in hunting feral pigs and deer in thick vegetation where a quick, second shot is needed. The Remington Model 7600 series rifles and carbines, the Model 7600P, and the Model 7615P are legal and available to own in all the states and territories of Australia under a Category A/B Firearms License except for Western Australia, where the Model 7615P has been restricted due to the rifle's ability to take M16/AR-15 magazines. Despite this, both the Model 7600P and the standard Model 7600 line of rifles and carbines are still legal to own in Western Australia. The Remington Model 7600P rifle is also a standard-issue rifle with Queensland Corrective Services prison guards alongside the Remington Model 870 shotgun.
The Remington Model 760 is also known as the rifle used to assassinate civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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