Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last couple of posts, we looked at a few cartridge rim types: the rimmed cartridge, semi-rimmed and rimless types. We will look at ...

In our last post about various cartridge rim types, we looked at the rimmed cartridge . As we noted in the last post, rimmed cartridges are ...

In the next few posts, we will study different types of cartridges by a specific part of the cartridge: the rim . We will discuss five diffe...

A very common question among newbies to firearms history is "What is the difference between a rifle, a sub machine gun, a machine gun, ...

In the last couple of posts, we studied the break-open action and the sliding barrel action . Now we will study another type of action that...