Firearms History, Technology & Development

We will now look at some coating treatments which are usually applied on top of some of the other treatments we studied previously to give i...

In most of the previous methods we've studied, the method of reducing corrosion has been to infuse a thin layer of corrosion resistant m...

In the last few posts, we looked into metal treatments like plating , parkerizing and bluing . In this post, we will study a newer form of ...

The next method of metal treatment we will study is called plating . There are two forms of plating: electroplating and electroless platin...

In our previous post, we discussed metal treatments such as browning and bluing . In this post, we will discuss another metal treatment tha...

Since the early days of gun-making, people were looking for different ways to better protect the iron and steel parts of their weapons. Ther...

In the earlier days of gun-making, many gun parts (such as flintlock actions , percussion lock hammers etc.) were made of low carbon steel,...

From the earliest guns, iron and steel were the materials of choice for making certain parts of the gun, such as the barrel , action , trigg...