Firearms History, Technology & Development

The M1911 pistol is a legendary design that is still going strong well into the 21st century. We will study some of its history in this post...

With all the discussion about safety mechanisms in the previous few posts, it is now time to discuss the subject of carry conditions , i.e. ...

In the last couple of posts, we studied the basics of firearm safety mechanisms  as well as some manual safety mechanisms . In this post, we...

During the early and mid 1800s, single-shot pistols began to lose popularity as revolvers became more common. It was only close to the end ...

In our last post, we studied the basics of a Short Recoil Operated Action , as well as some different weapons that use it. In this post, we ...

In our previous post, we studied the basics of recoil operated actions . In this particular post, we will study one of the types of recoil o...