Rifles and Small arms

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Small arms and rifles are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Small arms" instead a noun "Rifles".

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Rifles and small arms are semantically related. You can use "Rifles" instead a noun phrase "Small arms".

If I am facing down a Tiger tank with rifles and small arms, I will make the deal.

Source: Just For Fun / How to Survive a War Movie
The army fields locally-produced small arms, though the Special Forces use a lot of German-made weapons such as the MP5 submachine gun and MSG-90 sniper rifles.

Source: Good Guns, Bad Guns
Have a Gay Old Time: A minor example, but when BF talks of 'guns', he explicitly refers to the Boers' cannon and Nordenfeldt guns, and not small arms (rifles, muskets or anything smaller).

Source: Literature / The Defence of Duffer's Drift

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