Firearms History, Technology & Development

Imagine you're looking at a used pistol with an intent to purchase it. If it has been well used, chances are that some parts may be worn...

In today's post, we will study the causes for inaccuracies when people shoot handguns. There is a handgun shooters chart, that helps sho...

In our last post about Queen Anne pistols , we mentioned that they were carried by some pirates, notably the famous pirate captain, Edward ...

In today's post, we will look at a type of pistol that was around in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the Queen Anne pisto...

In our last post, we looked at an early weapon that was capable of rapid reloading, the Kalthoff repeater . In today's post, we will loo...

In the meat processing industry, there are certain tools that are used to enable a quick humane death of a food animal. There are two basic ...

A blunderbuss is a short range defensive weapon that reached its popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries. We will study this unique class ...

In our last post about combined firearms , two of the examples (the whip pistol and King Henry VIII's mace) are also examples of a conce...

In the last few posts, we have seen firearms combined with axes , with swords and knives and with daggers . In this post, we will look at s...

In our last post, we studied the combination of a firearm with a sword . In this post, we will look into a relative of the sword, the dagger...

In our last discussion, we explored how axes and pistols could be combined together into a single weapon. In this post, we will explore pist...