A rifle was a firearm-type weapon that was generally longer than a standard handgun. The classical rifle was designed to be fired from the shoulder for better aiming. Projectile rifles had spiral grooves in their barrels.
Many types of rifles exist, including:
- Biorifle
- Disruptor rifle
- EM-41 phase rifle
- Isomagnetic disruptor rifle
- Phaser rifle (type-3 phaser)
- Phase disruptor rifle
- Plasma rifle
- Rigellian phaser rifle
- Thoron rifle
- TR-116 rifle
- Winchester