Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we saw a video that showed the basics of a bolt-action firearm , A bolt action is in the class of manually operated firear...

In our previous post , we studied the parts of the gun that comprise the fire control group (a.k.a. the trigger control group). In this post...

We sometimes hear the term " limp-wrist " in firearms terminology. So what is it? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? What should w...

Let us now recap what we've learned about gas operated systems in the last few posts: Gas operated systems work by utilizing some of the...

In this post, we will study a lesser known gas-operated system known as the Gas Trap system . This was only used for a few rifles in history...

In our last two posts, we studied gas operated actions based upon pistons: the short-stroke piston action and the long-stroke piston action...

In our last post, we studied the gas operated, short stroke piston action . During this post, we will study the other gas operated action th...

The first gas operated mechanism we will study today is called the short stroke piston. This is the mechanism that is used in rifles such as...

In the last few posts, we've studied some modern firearm actions such as those that utilize the blowback principle and the recoil opera...